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And the blood we shared was now poison in my veins.
I couldn’t hear over the thoughts racing through my mind, like wind inside my head.
“I saw you and I thought I was about to watch you die. I thought my heart was going to stop beating inside of my chest.”
Memories suddenly felt more like dreams, moments stuck between waking and sleeping.
Remembering it was like swallowing a stone.
trying to hear what she wasn’t saying. What was carefully buried beneath the words.
I gulped down a breath as the bear stilled, his huge paws sunken into the snow and Fiske’s back pressed into me. I set my mouth against the back of his shoulder and stared back at the creature. It was as if he was going to speak. As if he had something to tell me.
Home felt an entire world away.
“You are seeing the truth. I see you thinking it, every day.” “What truth?” “That they’re like us.”
“What are you thinking now?” The weight of it fell from my head, down into the rest of my body. The words were small but they were true. “I’m thinking that I wish you’d died that day.”
He looked up at me, and I tried to find something to say. But there was too much. It was all buried too deep. I couldn’t reach it.
“Even if you can’t see her when you close your eyes, our bodies and our minds remember things that we can’t. They hold onto things.
“I belong to Fiske. If you want something, you’ll have to ask him for it.”
When the sun grew brighter, I pulled the blankets up over my head and listened to my heartbeat.
