“And so saw, by a trick, an angle, a flaring of torchlight far down the dark river, how the arrow – white-feathered, she would remember, white as innocence, as winter in midsummer, as death – fell from the summit of its long, high arc to take the coran in the shoulder, driving him, slack and helpless, from the rope into the river amid laughter turned to screaming in the night.”
