It’s incredible, and I tell him that. I’m surprised he’s not looking at it, but his gaze is fixed on me, as if he doesn’t want to miss a moment of my reaction. “I come here when my heart is sad,” Taushen says softly. “And somehow, this place makes my spirit glad once more. That I can see such a place and touch it. That I can live where such a thing can exist, and then, perhaps, I think everything is not so bad.”
