“It’s smaller than our current place,” he said. “But on the other hand, no tuatara.”
He asked me how I was doing, and I told him that I felt okay much of the time. Four weeks between visits to Dr. Singh now.
“So when are you leaving?” I asked him. “Tomorrow,” he said, and that killed the conversation for a while.
“Okay, so,” I said at last, “what am I looking at?” He laughed a little.
“Well, you’ve got Jupiter up there, of course. Very bright tonight. And there’s Arcturus.”
He squirmed a bit to turn around and pointed toward another part of the sky.
“And there’s the Big Dipper, and if you follow the line of those two stars, right there, that’s Polaris, the North Star.”
“Why’d you tell the cops to look down there?” I asked.
“It was eating Noah up, not knowing. I realized... I guess I realized I had to be a big brother, you know?
That’s my full-time occupation now. That’s who I am. And he needed to know why his father wasn’t in touch with him
more than he needed all the money, so that’s what we did.”
I reached down and squeezed his hand. “You’re a good brother.” He nodded.
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