Chapter Nineteen
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PatienceThere was something about the sight of the two of them together that stirred. Almost personal, more reunion than sympathy, love than consolation, they embraced as though there was nothing left to do but embrace. The world might have crumbled around them, the cavernous split we resided in opened further, and still they should have held each other. If they'd fallen into the veritable pit, as one day all our kind must, they'd have still clung like limpets. I envied them that caress.
I turned away ashamed for my visual intrusion. It wasn't right to spy on them, not right at all. Instead, I looked up, my eyes traversing the dark, cave entrance, up beyond the crumbling facade of rock to the ruby light that swamped the sky and perforated the gloom of our hideaway.
