“(Djinn are essentially vapor.) "I blew him away.”
“Only the flesh dies, Kerry. The flesh is vapor. When the vapor drifts away and is gone, only we remain.”
“I turned to him and he reached for my hand. It would have been easier to walk away. But the wind still blew around us and the house still stood.”
“—And you completely blow me away and rip my world up and everything else, and then you go back to ignoring me.” “I blew you away?” I squeak out before I can stop myself. He stares at me steadily. “You blew everything away.”
“But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green chair was still warm from his body, I blew that lonely, flickering candle out”
“We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.”