She knelt, picking up the broken shards, and held them out to him. “I thought it would help me see the jungle more clearly,” she said, “but now I think it’s showing us something else.”
The sun was already low when Jane swung through the canopy, her laughter echoing off the thick green leaves. She had spent weeks learning the rhythm of the jungle—how the wind whispered through the ferns, how the river sang its endless song. Yet, despite the freedom she felt among the trees, a small, stubborn knot of shame tightened in her chest every time she thought about the day she had first arrived.
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