Chapter 17 Section VII

In the dim tent, the brooch glowed dull silver.It was moonlight shining through the cracks in the canvas. Holding Xiaoxing's brooch, I reached out to plug the gap, then turned my head to check the surroundings to see if there was any gap.Like I do every night. The canvas laid on the wood is all inside out.That's the way Xiaoxing taught me to close the world. On the outside of the closed world, I curled up, hugged Xiaoxing's brooch and closed my eyes.