Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -… [838]

I raised myself to my elbows and looked down at him. The only light in the room came from a single window up near the ceiling. Nothing covered it any more, and the glass was broken out of it, but still, only a little light came in. Curtis’s face was full of shadows. — , Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -…, 838

Note

The broken darkroom window does the scene’s lighting without commentary: light arrives from a ruined aperture, and the final three-word sentence ‘Curtis’s face was full of shadows’ lets a proposal be answered by an image. The defunct darkroom — a room for developing what was latent — is an unforced setting for a conversation about what these two will become.