Status Updates From Incarnate

Multiple peripeteias mid-novel. Wow.

“.... Too many people with closed minds. They’re the ones I’m sorry for.”
“Closed, no. Not closed.” There was an odd look in his eyes. “You cannot close a mind. Cutting oneself off from part of it is not the same at all. One may live in a single room of one’s house, but something else will live in the other rooms. Something else will grow there.”

Susan went to the window to look at the vanishing tyre tracks and the mounds that were parked cars. It must be litter that made the shape of footprints in the snow of the garden under the window; there couldn’t be just two footprints with none leading there or away.