Roadmarks

since." "It's a very—peculiar—occupation," Randy observed.

Toba shrugged.

"It's a living," he said. "I'm pleased to see you're still alive. Red."

Red smiled.

"It's an occupation," he said. "As a matter of fact, we were just discussing it..."

Somewhere, the Red Baron and Saint-Exupery were going at it over the French countryside. Joan saw their forms in the sky, like battling crucifixes...

A small man braked his black Volkswagen when he saw the blue pickup truck turn over and begin to burn. He watched for a time, then continued on ...

Alone, important and wise, the great dragons drift above Bel'kwinith, dreaming roadmaps.

The messenger collapsed on the steps of the Acropolis. He delivered the news from Marathon before he died.