Chapter 2“I used to be afraid of the dark when I was a child,” said Vincent. “Funny how things change. Now the darkness is my whole world.”
They walked to the corner and turned left, away from the bright lights of the main road a block away in the direction they had been heading.
“But the world of humans is filled with light,” he continued. “Electric light is everywhere. You can’t escape it.”
“Why would you want to escape it?”
“To enjoy a starry sky. To experience some tranquility. To appreciate the silence and the nothingness. To have the space for meditation and reflection.”
“I’d never thought about it like that.”
They came to a large park bordered on two sides by a thin strip of bushland, a dimly lit space away from the relative glare of the streetlights.
Vincent led Clay onto th
