Each pair adds up to every jointed piece; the bottom left is a square; bottom right is a square; top left is a square; top right is a square. The heart is a square too.

WHICH ARE ONE

And I am halfway through the orbit. And if you take half of the whole and make up pairs to equal me, you will soon use up all of the pairs.

Now, look no further than the day. My alpha and my omega. Make of these two halves a whole. Take the song of equal number in the old king’s book. Equal number of paces forward from the start. Equal number of paces backwards from the end—omitting only the single exit word. Amen to that.

I am what I am, and what I am is what you will see.

Count on me very carefully.

ENDURE NOT YET A BREACH, BUT AN EXPANSION

Will’s head had at first felt heavy, and now was growing light. He was unaware of the looks he drew—from a young boy holding his mother’s hand, an older lady who took off her glasses to watch his steps without any hint of rudeness or alarm, and from a vivacious redhead, who’d stopped chatting to her girlfriend, and found she’d become fixed on this devilishly beautiful man. A priest watched him, nodding acquiescently, and a man behind the pillar on the north side also seemed mesmerized by Will’s whole experience. He clicked off a digital picture of the man in the maze.

And Will’s feet danced lightly, his words like a rosary: “I have a will to be what I am…If I was what I am willed to be…”

He had reached the middle of the labyrinth, and his face was full west, the Great Rose Window straight above him. Eight bright angels watched him from the larger petals of the inner rose, sitting in pairs between an eagle, a winged man, an ox, and a lion. Will was exhilarated. He hadn’t suddenly undergone a religious conversion, but he marveled at the effect of the steps, the light, the sounds inside the great church, and his own psyche, which felt ecstatic. And, more amazing still, he understood something in the message on the sheet, next to his heart, which he hadn’t seen previously. He was Will; his destiny was to uncover the home of the key, and be initiated to its meaning and its treasure. It would happen, without him forcing it any further, quite passively perhaps.