Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -… [834]

“We’ve got to get out of here, too,” Curtis said as we lay together afterward, lingering, tempting fate, not wanting to lose the feel of each other so soon. But that wasn’t what he had meant. I turned my head to look at him. — , Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -…, 834

Note

A rare moment where Lauren’s inability to read faces is dramatized rather than stated: the appositive triple ‘lingering, tempting fate, not wanting to lose the feel of each other’ is her misreading of the moment, and ‘But that wasn’t what he had meant’ corrects it in one stroke. The physical turn of her head is the whole pivot of the scene.