So I let her
CASPIAN I do not tell stories well. This is not false modesty. I have spent centuries in libraries, in correspondence, in the careful architecture of words arranged to convey specific meanings, and I am competent at all of it in the way that a person becomes competent at things they have done long enough without ever loving them. But stories — the specific vulnerability of narrating your own experience to someone who is looking at you while you do it — this I have not done in a long time, and I feel the rust of it. Farah doesn’t speak. She is very good at not speaking, which I note because most people are not. Most people fill silence the way they fill rooms, automatically, without examining whether the silence needed filling. She seems to understand that this particular silence is load
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