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Christina returned to Athens. She wrote the piece. It was the most beautiful, brutal thing she had ever produced. She described the two shepherds not as quaint relics, but as voluntary exiles from the tyranny of memory. She described the cove. She described her own confession.

“Every day,” Dimitris said, grinning. “About the goats. About the weather. About whether the sun sets into the sea or the sea rises to eat the sun.” I Dimosiografos Xristina Rousaki Kai Oi Dio Voskoi Sirina

“My name is Christina Rousaki. I have won three awards. I have been shot at, lied to, and thanked by people who had nothing left. I have not cried in eleven years, not since I covered the fire in the orphanage. I am not here to save these shepherds. I am here to consume them for a column. And I hate myself for it.” Christina returned to Athens

Christina looked at Theodoros. “What did the song say?” She described the two shepherds not as quaint

Theodoros spoke for the first time. His voice was a low rasp, as if his vocal cords had been sanded down by years of disuse. “Truth and a ghost are the same thing. You cannot see either, but you feel the temperature drop when they enter the room.”

“It asked me: What have you forgotten that you were supposed to feel?”