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Unfolding the paper, Artyom lifted it to his eyes. It was a short note. The words written in a sloppy fleeting hand baffled him. 'He who is brave and patient enough to peer into the darkness his whole life will be first to see a flicker of light in it.'
'And didn't he give you anything else?' Artyom asked with a puzzled look.
'No,' replied Sukhoi. 'I thought it was a coded message.'
But the man had come here especially for this. Artyom shrugged his shoulders. Half of everything Khan had said and done seemed complete nonsense to him but, on the other hand, the other half had compelled him to look at the world otherwise. How was he to know to which part this note pertained?
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