Sul Campo Del Mare - Vilenica

V2-2010.PM51606/13/100, 12:14 PMTaras ProhaskoThe UnSimple(Excerpt)Abundance of Days6. That winter Franzysk suddenly realized that he didn’t have a photographof himself for the article in Larousse. He could have gone to theChameleon Studio and had a photograph taken, but Franz correctly decidedthat, since the article had several hundred possible variants, eventhe best photograph would be purely serendipitous. He would have tohave his photograph taken each time the article was written anew. […]Thus Franz turned to a strange way not only of regaining the past butalso of discovering something completely unexpected.7. After breakfast (eventually Franz decided that it would be most correctfor Sebastian always to be in the middle, and he accepted that Annawould sit always by her man, and that he would have to be close to Sebastian,so that they could talk about everything easily) Franzysk took fromAnna the second key to Sebastian’s room, for the room would no longerbe locked and he would no longer go in there. […]And then Franz pulled from under the bedding the winter sheepskincoat that had been stored there for the summer and went to the UnionHotel, where for several years now Ialivets’s only contract killer lived in aroom on the second floor.8. Shtefan was very surprised when Franz entered his room—in IalivetsFranz could kill anyone without any need to hire an assassin: he was toowell respected for that. Shtefan had just returned from a successful job inKosmach and had to do a little work on his rifle.Before Franz arrived he had already managed to attend a church serviceand even take communion afterwards. But he did not swallow thesacrament. He carried it in his mouth to the hotel and put it in a hole inthe wall he had made earlier with a drill. He loaded a bullet into his rifle,walked to the opposite wall, and fired, aiming at the hole. It’s a good thinghe aimed well. Franz heard the shot between the first and second floorswhile riding in the lift that was being pulled upwards by two workersturning a winch up in the attic. Shtefan laid aside his gun and started tocollect the blood from the wall. Franz opened the door. Shtefan shouldnow have lubricated the rifle with the blood, but he didn’t want to do thisin front of Franzysk.9. Franzysk quickly explained his request.He wanted Shtefan to do something he did extremely well—to followhim unnoticed. Track him like an assassin. Find a good place for the shot160