The moon is a sliver of chipped ice, hung low over the heath. Your boots know the way before your eyes do: peat, root, the soft give of sand.
At the ridge, you stop. The village below is a scatter of sugar cubes, each window a weak star. You do not go down. Not yet. nachttocht
Somewhere left, a fox cuts a seam through the bracken. Somewhere right, the river talks to itself in vowels you almost understand. The moon is a sliver of chipped ice, hung low over the heath
Then you turn — not homeward, but through the night still clinging to your coat — and you carry its silence like a lantern nobody can blow out. The village below is a scatter of sugar
You walk for the sake of walking, each step a small refusal of the lit room, the list, the clock. The wind combs the grass into whispers. Your shadow — what shadow? You have loaned it back to the earth.
Instead, you stand until your spine becomes a question mark, until the cold is a second skin, until the first herringbone of dawn stitches the east.
No torch. You let the dark press in — not hostile, just ancient, like the inside of a lung before breath.
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