Chapter 50

115 Words

She hears the pounding of boots on the wooden dock, and before she can explain – before she can tell them that she is the one who called – someone slips an ­evac hood over her head, but backwards, and she is blind. ­Dany screams, kicks, scratches – but it’s too late. She feels the prick of a needle, and time is a suitcase that opens in her mind. Time is a suitcase brimming with soft silk scarves and she is standing alone in a room filled with light, and holding one scarf and then another up in her hand as the wind catches the soft fabric, blowing softly, a world of light and water.

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