The Color of Lightning

by Paulette Jiles

He did not doubt that Christ had died for him, but which one of him? The adamantine young man bright as

Saved

Even though he knew she was not afraid of going hungry, or of starvation. She was afraid of the slow death of confinement. Of being trapped inside immovable houses and stiff clothing. Of the sky shuttered away from her sight, herself hidden from the operatic excitement of the constant wind and the high spirits that came when they struck out like cheerful vagabonds across the wide earth with all of life in front of them and unfolding and perpetually new. And now herself shut in a wooden cave. She could not go out at dawn alone and sing, she would not be seen and known by the rising sun.

Fear

“Why should they be charged with murder? This is a war. They are at war with the Texas settlers, and now you are handing them over to Texas juries.

War