CHAPTER 16
I couldn’t tell you quite how long it took on account of me staying in that coal shed all the time and not really paying attention to when it was day and when it weren’t, but I got better by and by. I never went back to The Stare, but a few nights I had a fever so bad Crazy Wu said maybe I wasn’t gonna make it, except I did. And he stopped by every evening with all the leftover soup he hadn’t sold to the travelers, and Auntie always said, “The Lord bless you,” in a way that was so nice it almost reminded me of the way that blind lady spoke when she put her hand on my forehead. Then Crazy Wu would answer back, “He certainly has, Miss,” which after a few times I figured was his funny way of blessing her back. And that made me feel sorta bad for him on account of the way we flower
