Status: give me a few more week and then I'll update. :(

Daylight's Hour

"I don't belong here, I never did."

Bewildered, I asked, "Of course you don't. You just moved here."

"No," he said with much more force.

"Are you sick? I can call the doctor if you want." This was not how I expected him to talk.

"Listen to me," he held me hard by the wrists. "I am not from here."

And suddenly, for a moment, I believed him.