MAJOR ARCANA: Part Two, Chapter 6

A Love Supreme

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PART TWO

Chapter 6. | A Love Supreme

Overman 3000 waited in their future, the vortex that would devour them, the Minotaur at the heart of their labyrinth. In the meantime, Simon Magnus carried three boxes of books, a backpack full of casual clothes, a manual typewriter, and Valerie Karns’s two dresses from a back basement room—the first and cheapest place Simon Magnus had found upon arriving in the city—to Ellen Chandler’s railroad apartment 20 blocks away.