Von: You see what I see?
Kyra: I do.
Von: Feels good doesn’t it.
Kyra: Feels like home. But yes, feels good.
Von and Kyra are sitting on the porch when Von brings up the subject of Trev and Em. She tells him about the night of the fireflies with Papa back on Valla, of how Love (with a capital L) is not an idea but an energy, something that exists beyond the mind while also in the mind. It is both within and without. No separation. As Papa might say, electrons don’t orbit without it. This Love has a heat signature. It becomes a force multiplier. The atmosphere takes on a charge. Cells reproduce as if in joy amplified, of life living as water flows and fish swim. When this Love is present, the air is perfumed with its drug. Even the most jaded quaff.
3 comments:
Written several times has been your ability to keep things fresh, to introduce something new, and you did that here in the narration, in the tone and style, reported, matter-of-fact - I very much like how the two complimented each other, opposites, frame and picture. Then and now, remembering the fireflies chapter and the rapport that exists between Von and Kyra, a concept that runs through your story and one that you do beautifully. There is an equisite poignancy to close relations that to an extent are substitutes for what was lost (Von and Kyra, Von and Zoe, John and Kyra, John and Rog (Chad)..,with a relationship as close, as loving and as honest as that which exists between Kyra and Von, it is bigger than the both of them and therefore it touches still deeper.
I'm just gonna sigh and say thank you. :-)
something that exists beyond the mind while also in the mind.
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