the world turned upside down
Polly had been out of the compound like a shot as soon as they'd been given the go-ahead. She'd seen Starks, she'd seen Mal, she'd seen Hilary even, but Duo, she had been forced to conclude, was not in there. She didn't know that there was any other really good cover out there, and she'd started to hear talk of people missing...
She felt obscurely that she ought to check on her hut- or rather, she realized, where her hut had been. There were a few broken-off sticks sticking up out of the ground, but other than that nothing showed that it had ever been there.
If boats were on land, she thought, churches on sea... It hadn't been so very important on its own- it had been a comfortable place to live, and a wonderfully thoughtful gift from Duo and Arya, but there was no reason its loss should leave her leaning against one of the surviving trees, face in her hands, when all the rest of it hadn't.
She felt obscurely that she ought to check on her hut- or rather, she realized, where her hut had been. There were a few broken-off sticks sticking up out of the ground, but other than that nothing showed that it had ever been there.
If boats were on land, she thought, churches on sea... It hadn't been so very important on its own- it had been a comfortable place to live, and a wonderfully thoughtful gift from Duo and Arya, but there was no reason its loss should leave her leaning against one of the surviving trees, face in her hands, when all the rest of it hadn't.