Comfortable Madness First PDF 4-13-18

I smiled a fake smile. Tayla watched me. Iridescent flickers
buzzed around her head like hummingbirds. Her thoughts pushed
against me, wordless but heavy, blunt as stones.
“You can tell me,” she said.
I shook my head. This secret was mine. This pain was
private.
“She’s going to leave,” Gid said.
“I know.”
Tayla turned my face to her with a finger.
“What’s going on?” she asked.
“What?”
“Tell her,” Gid said.
“No.”
“Are you okay?” Tayla asked.
I opened my mouth but there was nothing there but air.
“This is what it’s about,” Gid said.
“He’s back,” I said.
Tayla looked around.
“Gid,” I said.
Lines went deep in Tayla’s face.
“We have to do something,” she said.
I nodded.
“This is getting bad,” she said.
“I know.”
She had no clue. For Tayla, things were either real or not
real. There was no middle ground. There was no gray.