That lion of yours, he's worth two legions of men. He's saved our men more than once this night. Now we must hurry and then you can go see for yoursel...f." You have such faith in my mother that she will come, even when she didn't want me to begin with?" Luria said softly."You cannot believe that," Martane said, taking the candle from his wife. "She couldn't keep you. You were part of this land and part of the people. She is a goddess. If she'd tried to keep you, you'd have been killed by the. As time passed, I became convinced that it was Jo. What did that mean? Were we both alive, both dead or both in some sort of limbo?I felt a growing pressure to be somewhere else but I resisted.Being somewhere else would be like opening the box containing Schrodinger’s cat: I would definitely be either alive or dead. I didn’t want to be dead because I wasn’t convinced there was an afterlife. But even if I were returned to the land of the living, that was also unlikely to result in a good. Dickerson pulled the curtain aside. He spoke to the nurse first. ‘Could you see that Mr. Carver and I have some privacy? I’d like to speak with him alone.’ I heard the door outside the curtain close, and Dickerson turned to me. He wasted no time. I would have been surprised if he had. He withdrew a small little book from his coat pocket and began to recite the accidents in chronological order. ‘Depilatory cream in the shower. Spilled bottle of shampoo, also in the shower. Kitchen utensils left. I figured her husband would probably be there but I didn't care. I'd get to see Valerie again and in a much more casual setting than the meeting where I'd first met her.I was nervous when I walked up to the door of Valerie's apartment and rapped firmly on the door knocker. Expecting to see Valerie in something fairly conservative like the dresses or suits she wore at work, I was not at all prepared for the sight which greeted my eyes when the door swung open. Valerie had combed her hair out and.