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Aunt Cord the graying virgin. In a long night of palaver, the man in black tells Roland’s future with a strange Tarot deck. Rhea of the Cöos, she’s called. He stood for a moment in the oblong of sun the open door admitted, his shoulders hunched all the way up to his ears, e

Then, as slowly as a robot with rust in its works, she walked back to the house, lay down on the sofa, and slept like the dead. Like playing at Castles. ”“It’ll drive them the rest of the way in,” Roland agreed. The face in the ball now turns toward the three pilgrims, and as it does it changes, becomes old and bald and raddled—becomes, in fact, the face Roland saw in the lying mirror.