This Dark endeavor taovf-1

by Kenneth Oppel

  And straight ahead, an open sarcophagus.

  My step faltered. If we put Konrad inside there and closed the lid, how could he ever breathe?

  I staggered on. I did not know how I managed it, but I helped lift the casket over the lip of the sarcophagus and lowered it inside.

  There was no priest or minister to preside over the ceremony, so we all stood in silence. The crypt was full, and people were standing outside, too.

  I shuffled back to my mother and Elizabeth. Her hand slipped into mine and squeezed.

  I thought of Konrad in his sarcophagus, never aging, his perfect body useless to him.

  I tried to pray- Dear God, please — but could not.

  My father went alone and slid the stone lid into place-and that was when I wept.

  Konrad had gone to the New World without me, and no matter how fast I ran westward, how close I kept to the sunsets, I would never catch up with him now. My tears were filled with fury-for I had failed him.

  I’d tried to save him, but I had not been smart enough, or diligent enough.

  I covered my face with my hands.

  And I made an icy promise to myself.

  I promised that I would see my brother again-even if it meant unlocking every secret law of this earth, to bring him back.

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