The police would knock on their door at 4:17 p.m. Hanna had seven months to live, the golem saw-she would die with Alena in June, in the vicious purges after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. Hanna Lieben was the golem’s creator Alena Nebeský was Hanna’s assistant. That was, of course, why the golem was a woman as well. “Hanna, are we almost done? I think I hear someone coming.” Prague surrounded her like a machine that turned on a thousand notched wheels, spinning in the night towards a future that she could see like an unrolled scroll.
She lay on the earth from which she’d been made, breathing in the scent of the new century-mud and sour garbage and gasoline fumes. Prague smelled different than she remembered. He golem woke on December 1st, 1941, to a cold wind.
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