All That Glitters

Remi told him to lead and so Sam, unawares of any way he was being especially inappropriate (except for the vague, constant feeling that he was failing every social interaction he entered), lifted up into the air and flew over the Labyrinth. Remi had been right; he could see now when he looked down how difficult it would have been to navigate on foot, but like this he could simply soar over the maze. It occurred to him, suddenly, that he'd have to stay a bird the whole time, or he would have to bite Remi again to fly out. The thought set his heart to ice and he didn't mention it to Remi, scared of scaring him away. I think it's this way. He told Remi, tilting slightly to head to the far corner of the maze, the pulling he'd felt before growing stronger as he came over a certain point. Here the hedges seemed to break, create a small clear circle of land and in the middle...yes! He saw the spark, the glint of light he'd seen his visions of the place. Down here. He said before descended in a circle the way he had seen Remi do, a slow sinking down that betrayed the excitement in his heart. Finally he reached the ground and could see the buried corner of something that was screaming for him now he was this close, but did not transform from being a bird, not yet. He didn't want to and then find out Remi's plan had been for them to be shifted the whole time, that he'd be mad Sam expected him to be bitten again. I think that's it. He said, watching to see if Remi would shift. Samuel At seventeen, I started to starve myself I thought that love was a kind of emptiness And at least I understood then the hunger I felt And I didn't have to call it loneliness