“I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one – it wasn’t doing what I was doing.”
“I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.”
“Shit,” he said, panting and frustrated. “I got rid of them.”“What? All of them?” I breathed.“I thought you didn’t…if I wasn’t with you, I wasn’t going to need them.”
“I can tell you what I wasn’t doing when I wasn’t doing what I was supposed to: I was doing what I was supposed to.”
“I make that four horses and ten men just to get rid of one old woman. What did you do to the King?”
“Eat breakfast, find a better job, get rid of the damn voices. Now if all I had to do was wiggle my nose for that to happen. Alas, I was no Samantha.”