the kids feared it when she turned up for games. we locked eyes for a good twenty seconds after the heat of the explosion reached us, two kids frozen in that warp-speed tunnel where changes happen or they don’t happen but you’re locked up inside just the same. never saw her again after that. she took off running like me and i’m not sure where she ended up after she stopped. it’s better that way, i think.
anyway i’m glad you made it out of there and over and that we met. really. it’s still good to talk about it once in a while, just not too frequently and not with 