Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -… [2106]

Bankole looked at my wound, rebandaged it, and this time gave me something for the pain. He buried the bloody bandages he had removed, digging a shallow hole with a flat rock. — , Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -…, 2106

Note

The burial of the bandages is the detail worth keeping — practical hygiene on the road doubling as a kind of concealment, done with whatever comes to hand. Two sentences of unemotional procedure that make the pain and the road’s dangers legible without naming either.