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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm“Look at her go, Gage!” Louis yelled, laughing.Gage was leaning so far back he was in danger of toppling over. A huge grin covered his face. He waswaving to the kite.Louis got some slack and told Gage to hold out one of his hands. Gage did, not even looking around. Hecouldn’t take his eyes from the kite, which swung and danced in the wind and raced its shadow back andforth across the field.Louis wound kite string twice around Gage’s hand and now he did look down, comically amazed at thestrong tug and pull.“What!” he said.“You’re flying it,” Louis said. “You got the hammer, my man. It’s your kite.”“Gage flyne it?” Cage said, as if asking not his father but himself for confirmation. He pulled the stringexperimentally; the kite nodded in the windy sky. Gage pulled the string harder; the kite swooped. Louisand his son laughed together. Gage reached out his free hand, groping, and Louis took it in his own. Theystood together that way in the middle of Mrs. Vinton’s field, looking up at the Vulture.It was a moment with his son that Louis never forgot. As he had gone up and into the kite as a childhimself, he now found himself going into Gage, his son. He felt himself shrink until he was withinGage’s tiny house, looking out of the windows that were his eyes—looking out at a world that was sohuge and bright, a world where Mrs. Vinton’s field was nearly as big as the Bonneville Salt Flats, wherethe kite soared miles above him, the string drumming in his fist like a live thing as the wind blew aroundhim, tumbling his hair.“Kite flyne!” Gage cried out to his father, and Louis put his arm around Cage’s shoulders and kissed theboy’s cheek, in which the wind had bloomed a wild rose.“1 love you, Gage,” he said—it was between the two of them, and that was all right.And Gage, who now had less than two months to live, laughed shrilly and joyously. “Kite flyne! Kiteflyne, Daddy!”They were still flying the kite when Rachel and Ellie came home. He and Gage had gotten it so high thatthey had nearly run out the string, and the face of the Vulture had been lost; it was only a small blacksilhouette in the sky.file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (178 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:49 PM