“Put your hands on me,” he directed, aware that in such anguish The Giver might need reminding.
The hands came, and the pain came with them and through them.
Jonas braced himself and entered the memory which was torturing The Giver.
He was in a confused, noisy, foul-smelling place. It was daylight, early morning,
and the air was thick with smoke that hung, yellow and brown, above the ground.
Around him, everywhere, far across the expanse of what seemed to be a field, lay groaning men.
A wild-eyed horse, its bridle torn and dangling, trotted frantically through the mounds of men, tossing its head, whinnying in panic.
It stumbled, finally, then fell, and did not rise. Jonas heard a voice next to him.
“Water,” the voice said in a parched, croaking whisper. He turned his head toward the voice
and looked into the half-closed eyes of a boy who seemed not much older than himself.
Dirt streaked the boy’s face and his matted blond hair. He lay sprawled, his gray uniform glistening with wet, fresh blood.
The colors of the carnage were grotesquely bright: the crimson wetness on the rough and dusty fabric,
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