Chapter 24: Chapter 24: Atop the high perch, we sit and we ponder life’s many mysteries

Since the day with the very big fish, we have walked for many, many, more days.

 

And then we walked for many days yet more.

 

Today, we walk no longer.

 

- An oddity.

 

We sit in silence, nested on a corner, up on a high hill, up on some high rocks. There, high above the world, higher than I think any sunflower has been before, we rest.

 

Burch sits with crossed legs. I sit with my roots spread out through the rocky sediment of the hill, a little ways behind her.

 

It is not ideal.

 

But I prefer it to being in the rucksack, as I have been for so long now.

 

And together, we simply sit in silence, enjoying the view, enjoying being this close to the sun.

 

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I never knew that one could get so high up in the world.

 

This is even higher than that time we went up a tree.

 

- And that was very high.

 

I am not sure what has brought this episode of silence to my friend, who has been traveling and hunting these last few days, as if possessed.

 

Ever since that day in the city, Burch has had only eyes for escape, only eyes for the west, only eyes for the dream of paradise, which haunts us both.

 

But I am not entirely ungrateful for this shift in her demeanor. Life sure has been an adventure and it has been very exciting. Perhaps, however, it has been too exciting. It is good to just sit and relax for a time. This is a far more natural thing for a sunflower to be doing. Resting and basking is far more natural than traveling.

 

One can defy nature for a time, but doing so for at length will catch up to you eventually.

 

My leaves, spread out wide and my head, held high and proud, all stretch out as far as they can go, to absorb more of the sun’s calm radiance. My roots dig and burrow, drinking greedily of the underground rainwater.

 

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