We Travel the Spaceways (Black Stars) by Victor LaValle

Author:Victor LaValle [LaValle, Victor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

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I waited for her outside.

She made me wait outside. She wanted to light a candle on her own, yes, but she also wanted someone to stand lookout. I tried to tell her that no one would see because no one ever saw me, but think about how that would have sounded. This lady met me about an hour earlier; I couldn’t confess that I made a habit of invading houses of worship. She told me to stay outside, and she pressed one hand to my chest when she said it. I didn’t realize how long it had been since I’d felt a human touch. She meant to stop me, but she only made my heart beat faster.

The second reason I let her go alone is because I wouldn’t have set fire to the place anyway. It was a white church, and I’d never once been tasked with setting them alight.

She wasn’t inside long. Might have been twenty minutes. And I stood across the street, on Washington Place, because I thought it would be too obvious if I parked my ass right at the church’s gates.

When she came out—using the back alley path I’d revealed—I watched to see what she would do when it seemed I might have gone. Would she shrug and cross her arms against the cold and head back to whatever place she called home? Would she shout for me right there on the corner?

No. Instead she did something remarkable. She looked one way and the other, didn’t see me, and leaned against the fence surrounding the church, casual as could be. It was like she knew I’d be back. And, of course, she was right.

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