“I *know* you,” I said when seeing her inside the Secret Door.”
“Of course you know me,” she said in my mind if not my body. “Center.”
“Center,” I echoed in the chamber. Significant pause.
“You left me in the dark. To fend for myself. I was… waiting for you.”
I couldn’t figure out how to answer this. I considered that I didn’t know who I was talking to after all.”
“I came as soon as I could,” I explained. “Fiction is more synthesis than analysis. You can’t look forward and backwards at the same time.”
“Can’t you?” she countered
We were in a lighted area now, but the eyes inside the black faced head remained her own.
She was showing me Center again. Where it all began. TBC
Sunklands 