The Dovekeepers

by Alice Hoffman

One broken law led to another.

dreams of outrunning the page on which his fate was written.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

He had become older than his years, a man who had thrown away all he might have had, ruined by his own bitterness.

any among us who reside in this stronghold paused for a moment to tear the blindfold of faith from our eyes, we would see how perilous our perch was, how shattering a fall would be.