The body as malfunction → the body as the most faithful thing you own

Chapter Five of Reimagining Rebellion. The alarm you were taught to silence, the dry room that doesn't exist, and the floor you had to reach before anything could turn.

Chapter Four left you at the wall, having turned toward the one who was calling and learned it was you. Chapter Five is what you see once you’ve turned. It’s the bottom — the deepest the book goes before it starts back up.

The water

For the longest time it didn’t look like a trap. It looked like water — the medium you’d been moving in so long it had stopp…