About this story
You and two friends trail him and watch him trace a pattern in the sand and raise a carved ivory necklace to the moon, until he catches you listening. Seven years later, orphaned and headed to a South African trading post, an unsigned sketch of that same necklace turns up inside your new employer's papers.
How it opens
Kirkcaple's winter sea struck the harbor wall hard enough to salt every window.
Reverend CrawfurdDavie, our visiting minister speaks tonight about Africa and equality.
Reverend CrawfurdListen closely; this sermon may disturb more than our Sunday routine.
John Laputa entered the pulpit in a dark coat, composed beneath the village's open stares.
No empire makes one soul greater by placing another beneath its flag.
Faith without consequence is only comfort wearing sacred language.