#so significant

Let’s compare “Okay” reactions from Amos

✔️when he is overwhelmed with his moral compass assistance leaders

With “crazy” Holden….

His unknown empathy battery is fully charged and ready to TRY and help ….even if it’s not much help. It’s determination.

Chapter Seventeen: Somebody

I wake to the sounds of birds in the garden.

They have a better class of birds here. Where I live, it's just pigeons you hear above the neighbours shouting and kids wailing. Here, it's blackbirds, song thrushes, wrens, great tits, robins, all trying to outdo each other.

I lie waiting for the rock to drop.

When I wake, there is always a small moment of not knowing where I am or what is happening, a tiny fragment of a second in limbo, and then the rock drops - the black heavy cold rock of pain that fills me.

It's not coming.

You keep it at bay.

I crawl closer to you, like it's your physical presence that keeps the rock from dropping.

My nose in your neck, I fall asleep again.

But i talked to Mr. Gilbert's wife about it. 

MADDY LET'S TALK ABOUT IT WHEN I FINISH IT