Of course, I see this now - that I was carrying over a stratagem from my novel, that I was obsessed with playing an end-of-life energy against a beginning-of-life one - but I didn't see the shared pattern until after I'd finished the short story.
Yebo, ngiyabona manje – ukuthi bengisebenzisa isu elikwinoveli yami, ukuthi bengigcwele ukwenza umfutho ongasekugcineni kwempilo kunalowo ongasekuqaleni kwayo – kodwa angizange ngikubone lokhu kuhambisana kwezinto kwaze kwaba ngesikhathi ngiqeda indaba emfishane.