part 26. Blazars,The Archivist’s Farewell

Memory begins with a keeper. But occasionally, the keeper must forget. Rajiv stood beneath the harkening Branch of A’nari, the Silence Tree, with his fritters pressed smoothly against the tone- suchlike crests of its dinghy. The theater around him lustered in early mist, breath- warmed and rowed with the songless hush of dawn.