He’s being hunted by death. And death has a 100 percent accuracy rating.
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A FINAL NOTE
Rainsford could have done without all of these flourishes. He could have simply done the work and moved on, but he chooses to build his own bizarre narrative over time. It makes me wonder if he’s not only a very bad man, but also an insane one, losing his mind in bits and pieces down through the ages.
I’m looking ahead now, sixty years to be exact, and I’m wondering what he will call himself when he returns to Fort Eden to repeat the trick. I wonder if Kino will still be floating down the floor to the elevator, or if someone else will be painted there. I wonder what Rainsford’s name will be then.
Actually, there’s only one thing I know for sure about that day. It’s the thing I’m most certain about.
If I live another sixty years, I’ll be waiting for him in the seventh room.
And if I have it my way, he won’t get out alive.
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