Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -… [726]

Cory stared at him—just stared. He refused to look away. Cory got up and went to their bedroom. I saw her there a few minutes later, sitting on the bed, cradling the urn of Keith’s ashes, and crying. — , Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -…, 726

Note

A marital standoff told entirely in stage directions, then broken by an image that does the emotional work without comment: the mother retreating to the bedroom with the urn of a dead child. The refusal to explain the crying — ‘I saw her there’ — is what makes it land.