Walk the Web Lightly by Mary Pascual

Author:Mary Pascual
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SparkPress

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She remembered.

She remembered the first time she had found the hidden picture of her grandfather. The thread she held turned silver gray, like cobwebs on precious metal.

She remembered the ocean, and another thread turned the perfect shade of pearly pink and promise.

She remembered painting with her fingers like the only thing in the world was a bright orange spot dancing on a page, and the thread rippled into that sunset color.

She remembered the first time she helped Grandmother with a weaving. Her heart lurched in a weird shift, and a ruby thread waved in her hand.

She remembered the first time she wanted to be a doctor. A boy had fallen down some steps at school. He was younger than she was, just a little first grader to her fourth. The lines whipped around her, but she couldn’t take her eyes off him. He lay so still at the bottom of the steps. It was like he was getting smaller in front of her, shrinking inside of himself, while a teacher bent over him and the recess guard kept the other kids back. The principal had rushed outside holding her cell phone, and in the distance, a siren sounded. No one knew what to do, except wait. If Naya was a doctor, she would know what to do. The lines whipped around her, bright and frenzied, but they couldn’t tell her enough. They couldn’t tell her how to fix him. She had to learn that. She needed to learn that so he could get up again.

The ambulance arrived, full of shiny equipment and medical devices. The EMTs were calm and efficient as they unpacked their bags and checked on the patient. A wave of relief had rolled through the playground.

The thread came out a confused swirl of anxious muddy beige and brilliant jade green. Looking at it, Naya’s heart sank. The thread captured what had happened, but it wasn’t pretty. There was too much childhood fear in it, and it wasn’t what she wanted in her soul wrap. She brought up the memory again and concentrated on how impressed she was with the EMTs. She held a thread in each hand, just in case . . . and the colors separated, one green, one beige.

She wrapped the green thread carefully around and tucked it with her other threads.

She left the muddy beige one on the floor. The color would fade in a while if she didn’t use it. She knew it would.

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