75 Goodbye

Adam sat on the terrace, which offered a beautiful view of the lake and the romantically lit hotel drawing on its other side. The building itself, designed in the distinctive NEBuilding style, looked like a work of art combining wood and stone. Looking at it - the work of Hubert Raymund - Adam realized how much talent the architect possessed. He sighed.

Within two days, two people professed their love for him. Actually within a day, he realized, because it had not yet been twenty-four hours since Halski....

A shudder shook him. The shock in which those events had placed him slowly subsided and he began to assimilate with his mind what had happened. The macabre dream began to take on the appearance of reality and at the same time his peaceful presence here at the lake began to blur into some surreal dream.