Six
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In her father’s study at home, Alice found a book of Goethe: Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Alice put on the stream and let the music cycle. After a few songs, a song struck her. Short, sharp metal noises from a guitar and the screaming of a demon filled her ears. Alice peered into the stream and saw a pale, shirtless man wearing low-rise black denim jeans. He suddenly started singing like an angel: a clear, melodic voice that transformed itself sometimes into throaty screams, like the gasps of a dying monster. She stood up and reached toward this handsome dark-haired man, trying to touch his toned body and muscular arms. She felt her fingers slip through the hologram. She recognized him now, Solus, the man on the train who had helped
