He held out a hand to David.
''Nice chatting with you,'' he said, as David grasped and shook it. ''And don't forget what I said. It's not hopeless. This age we're in — the age of Ra, I suppose you could call it — it won't last. The time has to come when an age of wisdom and clarity takes over, an age of Reason. We just have to keep hoping and trying, and it will happen.''
He shuffled away, petting his cat. David watched him and watched him till he was a dot at the far end of the beach.
He didn't know what to make of the encounter, or of the man himself. Crazy tramp with delusions of having been some sort of dignitary once? Eccentric ex-dignitary with delusions of being a tramp? Who could say?
The wind continued to bluster and the waves to crash, and the glitter of sunlight on the sea deepened from platinum to gold. David kept wanting to turn and head for the house, but his feet seemed entrenched in the pebbles, stuck fast. The tide crawled in. The day ebbed.
Soon the sky was red and the sun was setting.
David thought of Ra on his barge, and Set slaying Apophis.
And then, with an effort, but not a great one, he banished the thought.
And the sun went down like…
… like…
… like the sun going down.
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