They Stood
When she was formed, they filled her with liquid light. It flowed through her, shining in her veins and warming all around her. She sprang already grown, into the world, and saw grey. She walked first passed a man with no home, and her heart – for she was all heart – burned with his pain. Kneeling beside him, sitting alongside his hurt, she gave some of her light to him, and watched as he changed before her eyes. He stood, and stood, and stood. And she couldn’t help but smile
