“But we’re not so different, I don’t think. I mean, I know I’m just a big tree hugger and this is not my ancestry here but I was cut once, my skin laid open to the bone, and in the time it took them to find me, I saw something there.” Lynn closed her eyes and her face shifted, drew in as tight as a fist. “It’s the same stuff they pull from the earth and it’s inside everything and all of us but we cover it up.”

