The word had been “starving.” You have never been starving, he had been told.
You will never be starving. Now he was. If he had stayed in the community, he would not be. It was as simple as that.
Once he had yearned for choice. Then, when he had had a choice, he had made the wrong one: the choice to leave.
And now he was starving. But if he had stayed... His thoughts continued. If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways.
He would have lived a life hungry for feelings, for color, for love.
And Gabriel? For Gabriel there would have been no life at all. So there had not really been a choice.
It became a struggle to ride the bicycle as Jonas weakened from lack of food,
and realized at the same time that he was encountering something he had for a long time yearned to see: hills.
His sprained ankle throbbed as he forced the pedal downward in an effort that was almost beyond him.
And the weather was changing. It rained for two days. Jonas had never seen rain, though he had experienced it often in the memories.
He had liked those rains, enjoyed the new feeling of it, but this was different.
He and Gabriel became cold and wet, and it was hard to get dry, even when sunshine occasionally followed.
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