“Right. And when they slide past each other, they catch and slip—see, Mammy?—
and it releases energy, which travels to the earth's surface and makes it shake.”
You're getting so smart,Mariam said.So much smarter than your dumb khala.”
Aziza's face glowed, broadened. “You're not dumb, Khala Mariam.
And Kaka Zaman says that, sometimes, the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below,
and it's powerful and scary down there, but all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor.”
The visit before this one, it was oxygen atoms in the atmosphere scattering the blue light from the sun.
If the earth had no atmosphere, Aziza had said a little breathlessly, the sky wouldn’t be blue at all
but a pitch black sea and the sun a big bright star in the dark.
Is Aziza coming home with us this time?” Zalmai said. “Soon, my love,” Laila said. “Soon.”
Laila watched him wander away, walking like his father, stooping forward, toes turned in.
He walked to the swing set, pushed an empty seat, ended up sitting on the concrete, ripping weeds from a crack.
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