The English Patient
“He cups the hand held in front of him with the other as if protecting the flame of a candle. Hana meets him on the terrace, and he takes her hand and holds it against his. The ladybird circling the nail on his small finger quickly crosses over onto her wrist.She turns back into the house. Now her hand is held out in front of her. She walks through the kitchen and up the stairs.The patient turns to face her as she comes in. She touches his foot with the hand that holds the ladybird. It leaves he...r, moving onto the dark skin. Avoiding the sea of white sheet, it begins to make the long trek towards the distance of the rest of his body, a bright redness against what seems like volcanic flesh.In the library the fuze box is in midair, nudged off the counter by Caravaggio when he turned to Hana’s gleeful yell in the hall. Before it reaches the floor Kip’s body slides underneath it, and he catches it in his hand.Caravaggio glances down to see the young man’s face blowing out all the air quickly through his cheeks.He thinks suddenly he owes him a life.Kip begins to laugh, losing his shyness in front of the older man, holding up the box of wires.Caravaggio will remember the slide.MoreLess
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