HE REJECTED ME AT THE ALTER
It has been learning to work around the absence of the Warden the way a body works around an injury — functional, but the functioning has created new tensions, new load-bearing that was never intended, new pressures in places that were not designed to carry them.
Thessaly in the anchor point is the main compensation.
She has been there long enough that the anchor has incorporated her the way the body incorporates a splint — completely, dependently, in a way that means removing the splint requires careful preparation rather than simply taking it off.
"We cannot just pull her out," Sera says, from where she is sitting cross-legged on the kitchen floor beside me. She has both palms flat on the
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