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Madison Scott-Clary 2021-02-16 07:54:06 +00:00
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@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Or perhaps it was the *-dol-* stuck in the middle. Sadness? No, that wasn't it.
Here the Aaron was, doing his physics, doing his job, describing measurements and chromatic aberrations and spherical lenses and timed strobes and...
And all she could think was *would I know the God-stone if I saw it? If I touched it?*
And all she could think was *would I know the God-stone if I saw it? If I touched it?* Doubt like dry bread stuck in her throat.
"Hey."
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The hand of God had loosened its grip around her mind and here she was, back at camp, back by the barrel cactus and saguaro, back beyond the trees, where ferns fingered the air and fronds like hands reached out to touch them.
It did not last.
It did not last. Doubt clouded her vision once more. Doubt of this place, doubt of herself, of her worth.
The camp grew quiet once more. Sarai handed her bookmark back and she fingered it, book forgotten. She felt the letters etched into the thin brass, felt the words there, proven now to be incorrect, felt the shapes telling lies against her skin. She felt the weight of that hand, at once comforting and threatening, settle once more against her brain-stem, compressing, caressing, squeezing, squeezing, squeezing...