The Faded Quadrant
The dream was not of peace. It was of soil. I lay in the narrow cot in the infirmary of St. Jude’s. The stone walls sweated. The air tasted of damp wool and old iron. I was digging. My hands were caked in black earth. I dug for a root. A specific root. I knew the shape of it in my mind, though I had never seen it in life. It was jagged. Broken. A fragment of something once whole. I pulled. The...
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