4 (french) Werber, Bernard

enjoyable.
Then, Rose, beautiful in her nightgown, is leaned over the
balcony to gaze at the starry night. The moon
was huge. Around, the stars made their interest.
- I sometimes wonder if we do not play with sorcerer’s
apprentice, grumbled she. Look how the discovery the last
area of Paradise has thrown us together against the other. -
Do not you’re not going to support the obscurantist who
want a ban our explorations? - No, of course. Simply place
the safeguards to avoid nasty spills. The story of Raoul is
perhaps a warning. You imagine, if anyone went there and
fell on an angel who tells him of truths inconvenient! - Just
keep calm. Raoul told me that I was an orphan, so what?
This did not alter my behavior. On the contrary, I am now
more grateful to my adoptive parents for having me and
high. I was tempted to ask the second truth to see if I could
cash it. She refused. It made me promise to never ask to
hear it. I read in her eyes that she was convinced that this
one would cause much more damage than the first.
Yet I could not see what could be more terrible to learn that
parents who had always believed hers were not our real
parents.
We fell asleep in the arms of one another. In the morning,