The Darkest Heart
“I wondered if he would ever get what he wanted from life. All the time we had known each other, we both thought we wanted something different. Raul always talked about saving up and moving to Imperatriz, while I was always on the cusp of earning enough money to get what I wanted. It gave us something to talk about when the journeys were long and the sun was cruel, but now I was beginning to wonder if either of us would ever find our balance, or if we would die right here on the river, side by s...ide, in the place we knew best.
‘I should have made him stay at home,’ I said to Daniella who was sitting on the deck close to me. She was leaning against the gunwale with her legs drawn up so her knees were against her chest.
The river was more than a kilometre from one bank to the other here, both sides thick with forest that hummed, vibrant with life. All around us, white sandbanks rose from the silt-laden water like pale-boned monsters. The surface of those ever-moving islands was untouched by man and rippled as if water had been imprinted upon it.MoreLess
‘I should have made him stay at home,’ I said to Daniella who was sitting on the deck close to me. She was leaning against the gunwale with her legs drawn up so her knees were against her chest.
The river was more than a kilometre from one bank to the other here, both sides thick with forest that hummed, vibrant with life. All around us, white sandbanks rose from the silt-laden water like pale-boned monsters. The surface of those ever-moving islands was untouched by man and rippled as if water had been imprinted upon it.MoreLess
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