Jonas paused, frustrated by his inability to grasp and describe exactly what had occurred.
Finally he simply said, “It changed. I don’t know how, or why.”
“That’s why I was one minute late,” he concluded, and looked questioningly at The Giver.
To his surprise, the old man asked him a question which seemed unrelated to the seeing-beyond.
“When I gave you the memory yesterday, the first one, the ride on the sled, did you look around?” Jonas nodded.
“Yes,” he said, “but the stuff—I mean the snow—in the air made it hard to see anything.”
“Did you look at the sled?” Jonas thought back. “No. I only felt it under me.”
“I dreamed of it last night, too. But I don’t remember seeing the sled in my dream, either. Just feeling it.” The Giver seemed to be thinking.
When I was observing you, before the selection, I perceived that you probably had the capacity, and what you describe confirms that.”
“It happened somewhat differently to me,” The Giver told him.
When I was just your age—about to become the new Receiver—I began to experience it, though it took a different form.”
With me it was... well, I won’t describe that now; you wouldn’t understand it yet.”
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