one

words, they were distorted, sweeps of contact hard to pinpoint - yet it felt panic rise, knowing this was a fellow indentured rousing it from slumber.

but this black, it pulled eyelids shut! little limbs, they wouldn't move. waterways of the body dammed. please, have some understanding, the courtyard'll be swept, just let this awful blackness pass!

beyond its thoughts, the slaveling whined.