72. The Men “Bataille” Leave Home [Sacred Bones]
“I can’t see you when you’re miles above me.”
The clouds weren’t helping things. She was told by her older sister that all she needed to do was look up high in the sky that night around 7:30, as high as she could by standing on her tiptoes and craning her neck as far as it would go, and look for the flashing red lights in the air. It was a weird evening, though. The sun would usually be down by that time (she actually kept a chart hidden underneath her bed of the time of every sunset for the past 2+ years - why she felt the need to hide it was unbeknownst to her), but the purple light from the horizon still projected some large billowing clouds into the atmosphere, ostensibly blocking her vision. She started getting miffed, kicking the errant pebbles in the driveway and feeling her frown magnetized toward the ground rather than up above, where it was supposed to be. There wasn’t any point, she kept thinking to herself. Now devoid of energy to stand upright, she leaned against the station wagon, watching the purple tint of the landscape out of the corners of her eyes, and nearly involuntarily spread her arms out, made a propeller sound, and helped her sister turn the plane around and land back at the airport near home.
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