His Savior Was Never My Sister
My fingers closed not around the cool metal of a derringer, as I’d half-expected, but around soft, worn leather.
A journal.
Caleb’s journal.
The first pages were in a strong, elegant hand—entries from before the attack that put him in a coma. Observations on business, sketches of sailing yachts, notes on a violin concerto. Then came the gap. The next entries were different. The writing was faint, tremulous, a spider’s crawl across the page, as if the hand holding the pen fought against immense weight.
Day unknown. There is a voice. It reads Dickens. Great Expectations. I hate that book. But I cling to the voice. It is an anchor in the dark.