lordofsunshadowandsailor:
Torn between unsatisfactory possibilities of escape – diving into the dam, jumping back into the desert, or running along the wall’s edge – that only immobilize him, he always misses the moment of insight that makes him realize to be one
of them, winged creatures of the boundless waters.
Except that he does not know how to use his wings.
Unlike them, he does not know how to fly. Will they teach him?
The moment he becomes aware, too, of no longer bearing the black rags he regularly wore in the desert, but instead being naked like the warrior angels, Tobio panics, and starts praying. In silence, his most heartfelt prayer.
Dear Lord, protect me from what I desire.
As if he has screamed at them instead, the band of angels takes sudden but brief flight, lingering in his proximity, more cautious than scared, like vultures leaving a corpse they still intend to return to.
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