Chapter 6: The Tilted Universe
THE FOLLOWING DAY, Somtoo had appeared and managed to be so admirable and pitiable at the same time, and he did earn those, aw! and whoa! Interjections even though most were inaudible and hidden in the hearts of envious mortals.
Something had changed; the universe had tilted, he could feel it in his bones, and it had tilted to his favor. Somehow, everything smiled at him, even the sun spotlighted him from just above the horizon opposite him, with a big blinding solar grin that he would rather not be flattered by.
As he limped pretentiously, putting more weight on his left foot than on his bandaged right, he had struggled to juggle a lot of the lectures he received from Honor in memory. They were too many, so many at once, and like usual, Honor had talked s
