Chapter Fourteen
The fronds and brush and vines of the jungle rushed past me as I ran. My legs pumped faster than my heartbeats. I ran so fast that I outpaced my thoughts, leaving them behind me in the dust at my heels. My emotions lightened the faster I went, and my feelings went into the wind.
The past could not catch up to me. It was a glacier that melted slowly over time, with small chunks breaking off and splashing down in the recesses of my mind. Sometimes what broke off and rose to the surface was a little too heavy, nearly pulling me under. But not today. Today, I ran from it all.
I ran so fast I saw spots. Two of the Balam ran alongside me. It was the two males who had accosted me in Holmul.
It wasn’t that I could recognize them now. Though I had noted that their coats were mo
