jkrb Wrote:SPOILER WARNING-Not true. Rasalom goes into Jack's apartment himself to retrieve the katana.
Towards the end of The Dark at the End Ernst gives the package to Rasalom, who ends up using the katana inside to kill The Lady.
cobalt Wrote:There was a point after the R man got back to NYC after he healed. I think it was after he came out of the drug rehab center. It described where R snuck along an alley and broke into Jack's apt. to steal the blade.
Brian Wrote:I didn't remember either, so I went searching. The quote below is from a thread titled, The Dark At The End, Spoiler Edition from a few years ago. My wife knows her RJ. LOL
As to the box, I always thought Raslom didn't want to touch the blade, as maybe he feared it hurting him.
t4terrific Wrote:It definitely didn't happen after Rasalom got blown up. After he went to the rehab center and healed up, he bad Drexler take him to Drexler's place.If I'm wrong....ok. But I remember R sneaking along an alley outside of Jack's apt. I thought that was when the blade got stolen.
Rasalom said, I gave you an item, before I left, for safe keeping. Go get it. Drexler went into his own place to get it. He was afraid Jack would be waiting for him like before, but this time no Jack. If Rasalom stole it, it was long before that.
When I get back to Florida, I'll dig up my copies of Fatal Error, and Dark at the End, to check. I don't think my copies had Rasalom stealing it after jack let the lady cut herself with it.
Quote:It definitely didn't happen after Rasalom got blown up. After he went to the rehab center and healed up, he bad Drexler take him to Drexler's place.That's what threw me off too. I think what we need to understand is that the box never had the sword in it (at least at first). After leaving Drexler's place (where the box was under the bed) Rasalom has Drexler take him to a four story brownstone in the West Eighties (that's where Jack lives). If you read the passage, although it doesn't exactly say it, this is where Rasalom probably retrieved the sword and put it in the box. It then says that Rasalom ends up walking east towards Central Park (which is where Glaeken lives). I just can't figure out the importance of the box. Since the package (box) was mentioned several times in two different books, it seems there should be some type of importance attached to it.