If you’re still doing the ‘would you survive’ thing, i’m a fine arts major. I sculpt, craft, sew, and write. I haven’t practiced much lately but i can play the guitar. I’ve got a cat that’s basically my familiar, looking after me like a small furry grey croaking nanny. There are doodles in most every margin of notes i have. I keep many secrets, some borrowed, some of mine, all kept forever.
You leave Elsewhere Universitymostly unchanged, and that’s fine. The one thing you take away is that you candraw flame away from a candle wick and weave it through your fingers likeothers can flip a coin. Nothing larger than a single candleflame; it’s a smallgift and a secret one. But it’s a comfort, nevertheless, a habit while yourthoughts are elsewhere. You do eventually give your partner a shock, years downthe line, when you reach out absently while cooking and a bit of blue flamefrom the propane stove eddies in your palm like a sleeping animal, but you’reable to brush it off as a half-forgotten party trick.
