Ankyra Sound Judah sees a ghost

They are a pained mainlander, but not unheard.

What has hurt her heart?

The boy lifts and attempts a lurch. There might be a second fall, but he must patiently learn to trust this odd balance, the way a bird must before they can fly.

He moves to be a silent partner to her sorrow. He’d been torn by conflict, mocked by fear. He’d reached the end and given himself up to it. But he'd found something there.

You don’t really find God until you’ve seen the darkness.

When he looks at her, she shines in the night! Herself, a candle keeping vigil, an apparition of the first word: light! And she would not glow so starkly against any other shade. Light and dark; they exist together.

He wishes to tell her this. When he tries, a dry sound scrapes flat against his throat.