A list of quotes on Goodreads of the upcoming third book of The Constant Companion Tales series.
Part Six: The Devil from the Deep
Part six is now out as an e-book on Amazon Kindle
“What do you think of Chin Peng?” Hagar asked him, pointing to the TV screen with the remote control.
Captain Raden replying to his daughter Hagar on whether Chin Peng should be allowed home in 2016; Part Six: The Devil from the Deep.
“Chin Peng? What about him?”
“He wants to come home but he’s not allowed to.”
“The war is over. We signed the Hat Yai Treaty.”
“Does that mean he can come home?”
“Why shouldn’t he? It’s been 27 years.”
“Is that your opinion as a veteran? You were a soldier. You fought against the Communists.”
Our father stopped to look at Hagar, his face serious. “The war is over,” he stressed. “We stood down.”
I did go to the Berliner Unterwelten. I couldn’t force myself to approach the main entrance. There he was, the constant companion, standing between me and the entrance. A group of tourists queuing before me took no notice of the fearsome oddity. No one else saw him but me. This had never happened to me before. I tried not to panic.
Sarah Raden encounters the ghostly servant in Berlin, Germany.
“Sarah, turn around,” Hagar whispered. “Look at the end of that wooden platform. In the shadow.” I turned around and cast my eyes across the water to a darkened corner. On the wooden platform, her face lit from below by the lights, was me. She looked like me, but she wasn’t me. She stood there, looking at us. The constant companion only appears when trouble is afoot. But he rarely takes the guise of his master. This was the second time he pulled this trick, after Berlin. And I wasn’t even his master.
Sarah Raden and her sister Hagar being followed by the ghostly servant in Istanbul, Turkiye.
His uniform was damaged by the bullets, but not tainted by blood at all. I saw his shirt through the bullet holes in his uniform. He was impenetrable.
Syed Alwi describing a fellow soldier whose body can’t be penetrated by bullets; Part Six: The Devil from the Deep.
“Syed, I think the shirt is bad for him,” Agoh told me. “I don’t think it’s right for him to practise witchcraft.”
Syed Alwi and Agoh discussing a colleague who they think is possessed by something demonic; Part Six: The Devil from the Deep.
“It’s none of our business,” I countered.
“He’s going mad. He’s going to be a danger to himself and to his troop,” Agoh reasoned.
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