“We shouldn’t have!” Jonas said fiercely. The Giver looked startled at the certainty of Jonas’s reaction.
Then he smiled wryly. “You’ve come very quickly to that conclusion,” he said.
“It took me many years. Maybe your wisdom will come much more quickly than mine.”
He glanced at the wall clock. “Lie back down, now. We have so much to do.”
“Giver,” Jonas asked as he arranged himself again on the bed, “how did it happen to you when you were becoming The Receiver?
You said that the seeing-beyond happened to you, but not the same way.”
The hands came to his back. “Another day,” The Giver said gently. “I’ll tell you another day.
Now we must work. And I’ve thought of a way to help you with the concept of color.
“Close your eyes and be still, now. I’m going to give you a memory of a rainbow.”
Thirteen
DAYS WENT BY, and weeks. Jonas learned, through the memories, the names of colors;
and now he began to see them all, in his ordinary life (though he knew it was ordinary no longer, and would never be again).
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