Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -… [2130]

I volunteered for first watch because I was in too much pain to sleep. I got my gun back from Natividad, checked to see that she had reloaded it—she had—and looked around for a partner. — , Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -…, 2130

Note

Narrated without self-pity, and the narrator’s pain is reported as a logistics problem rather than an emotion. The gun-check parenthetical “—she had—” lands as a small trust audit, evidence the narrator applies the same scrutiny to her people as to strangers.