17 LEMUR THE SEVENTEENTH URFA SUBURBS – TURKEY (AIDA, 9 years old)
A rectangle which Aida holds on to as if to her last hope.
This paper is just big enough for Aida to curl up on it and feel like she’s on her own island.
This paper is just big enough for Aida to imagine she were on a raft floating on a rough ocean.
Aida is all alone in the world, after a shipwreck. She’s the only survivor. The others are dead. Thoroughly, definitely dead. Aida is alone. The raft. The waves. Alone.
Some messages from an ancient people or god himself are left on this vessel which luckily came her way, like a godsend, exactly when she was losing her breath. How important this is! How exciting!
These signs must address only her, since she is left alone. And god knows who he leaves alive, who he leaves me
