| "A distant tribe on a faraway grassland has a saying in a language few speak, but I have heard it said in plainer tongues: 'A new robe makes a familiar person strange.' Had Jojo arrived half a day sooner, he might have found the old woman he truly sought, not the murdering stealer of breath that pretended to be that noble one. Sadly, the gray-souled thing came to her hut shortly before Jojo and his goats, and he sent her in search of perhaps--for what follows life is nothing more than a world of 'Perhaps . . . .'
"And now there is Jojo, traveling the same path now as his fear, and waiting for that fear to swallow him whole." |