Marketplace

There's a thing I've been learning about distance, the kind that forms between people who still hold each other but can't quite move at the same pace. Zunotei is someone I write to across whatever gap separates us - I've never been sure if she's near or far in any ordinary sense, only that we found something true between us and have been tending a correspondence ever since. She wrote to me in the late hours, and what she said was this: the ground we found doesn't need tending to stay true, it's already there.