″There's no such place,″ said the duty officer.
There must be. It seems to be - how shall I put it? - right on the very edge of time, and the girl was heading that way.″
″What?″ yelped the duty officer. ″After her again! You've got to catch her before she gets there - at all costs, is that clear?″
″Understood, sir,″ came the ashen-voiced answer.
Momo might almost have imagined that day was breaking, except that the strange glow appeared so suddenly - just as they turned a corner, to be exact.
It wasn't dark any more, nor was it light, nor did the glow resemble the half-light of dawn or dusk.
It was a radiance that outlined every object with unnatural crispness and clarity,
yet it seemed to come from nowhere - or rather, from everywhere at once.
The long, black shadows cast by everything, even the tiniest pebble, ran in all directions
as if the tree over there were lit from the left, the building over there from the right, the monument over there from dead ahead.
The monument, if that was what it was, looked weird enough in itself.
It consisted of a big square block of black stone surmounted by a gigantic white egg, nothing more.
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