The Book of Blood Volume 6 The Last Illusion Part 27

The Book of Blood Volume 6 The Last Illusion Part 27

Listen,' she said. 207 Ballard listened, and heard somebody talking in a corner of the ruin. The voice ebbed and flowed. He followed the sound across the roofless interior to where a wolf was standing, surrounded by an attentive audience, an open book in its front paws. At Ballard's approach one or two of the audience turned their luminous eyes up to him. The reader halted. 'Ssh!' said one, 'the Comrade is reading to us.' It was Mironenko who spoke. Ballard slipped into the ring of listeners beside him, as the reader took up the story afresh. 'And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth . . .' Ballard had heard the words before, but tonight they were new. '. . . and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air . . .' He looked around the circle of listeners as the words described their familiar pattern. '. . . and over every living thing that moveth upon the…