By David Eddings
Raphael Taylor used to be a golden boy--blond, good-looking, captivating, a proficient athlete and a major pupil, an angel in each means. Damon Flood was once a scoundrel--a delicate, smilling, cynical satan, as devious and corrupt as Raphael used to be open and blameless. The day Raphael met Damon was once the day he all started his mysterious fall from grace. And the golden boy fell very quickly and extremely far....
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Quitting, Taylor? I thought you were an athlete. " "I'm hurting, man. " Quillian's voice was contemptuous. "But let's not lie to each other. Let's call it by its right name. You need a fix, don't you? " Raphael spun his chair around angrily and wheeled himself out of the therapy room. Later, in the hazy euphoria the drug always brought, Raphael lay in his bed and tried to bring his mind to bear on the problem. "Junkie," he said, trying the word out. It sounded funny to him, and he giggled. "Junkie," he said again, and giggled some more.
As he drove his foot down on the brake, he heard the roaring noise. His tires howled as the car spun and skidded broadside toward the intersection. The locomotive klaxon bellowed at him as he skidded, tail-first now, onto the tracks in front of the train. The world was suddenly filled with noise and light and a great stunning shock. He was thrown helplessly around inside the car as it began to tumble, disintegrating, in front of the grinding mass of the locomotive. He was hurled against a door, felt it give, and he was partially thrown out.
He looked at his watch. "I'm going to have to get cranked up. " "Take care, Gabriel," Flood said softly, and then he left. They did not shake hands, and the inadvertent slip passed almost unnoticed. The hospital became intolerable now that his body was mending. Raphael wanted out-away-anyplace but in the hospital. He became even more irritable, and the nurses pampered him, mistakenly believing that he was disappointed because he could not go home for Christmas. It was not the holiday, however.