46 Reverberations
Thom doesn’t know how it happens but the next time he is aware, he is sitting on the kitchen floor. His elbow is throbbing. A chair is lying beside him. Aunty Val is peering over the table at him but doesn’t move to help.
“Did you hear me, Thom?”
“I’m not sure”, Thom mumbles, cradling his elbow with his other hand. He wants a sling so everyone can see there is something wrong with him. How will people be able to tell that he has been split in half when there are no signs on the outside?
“You and Daniel have the same father”, she repeats. Her voice keeps slicing through him like a glacier.
“But that would mean he and I were…” Thom can’t even say that word, though it is only two syllables.
“Yes, brothers”, she finishes.
“But that doesn’t make any sense”. Thom heaves
