“Who may you be?” he asked suspiciously, bending his frame to the left to see what was behind me, “Ah. You are looking for the doctor.” He sounded disappointed, bored.
I stammered to speak, “Uh… yes… you see, my friend here,” I gestured behind me, “his name is Samuel, he is a very important holyman in our town, and just an hour ago he fell from the top of the pub and hurt himself. I think he has broken his spine… he told me he can’t feel his toes, and when you listen to him now, he sounds mad, like all the sense has been knocked out of him. Just listen.”
The boy, with his hands clasped behind his back, took a careful, slow step out of the door toward Samuel. He turned his ear to him, bent slightly at the waist.
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Samuel went on musing about nature, telling the sky why he loved it so much. “When I was a boy, just like you” he said softly with his hands knitted on his chest, his eyes reflecting the stars above, reflecting the heavens, “I used to sleep on the streets, in alleyways. It was cold, so I had a little fire beside me, and a holey bedroll that I stole. I was hungry, so I would steal fruit from the market, try and catch fish in the river beside town. All that came and went. My fire, every night, without attention, would die. My bedroll, it rotted away. The owners of the fruit stand got wise to my tricks and came prepared with sticks to beat me. I was never good at catching fish. But you know what stayed?” He turned his head to the boy, and they looked at each other, Samuel smiling and the boy confused. “This sky has always been above me, teaching me that I am below not just it, but all of nature, for I am a servant of this world. The heavens are one of the few things in my life that have always been there. In my life, there have always been two things: the universe and change. And when I see it that way, I am given a new perspective on things. I see life clearer, for all the fluff of perception is cut away. If there is anything you learn from me young man, it is this: The universe is change, and life is mere perspective. When you swallow that lesson, things will ease, and even the loss of your legs, as It seems I have now, will appear to be nothing more than rain when you expected shine, a great breeze on a once calm day.”
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