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Inside him — inside it — there is a miracle.
It caresses it with the hands of its mind. It grins, white-toothed and pale, the Saul-beast. It has a miracle, a stolen miracle, a gem most precious, a jewel of red nothingness. It has smuggled o’er to the House of Hunger one of the treasures of the saints.