The Room Emptied Early
The sweeper finds one blanket where there should have been three. Nobody bled. That is not the same as safety.
A fictional narrative within Callizto Dark Symphony.
The sweeper’s name did not stick either. That was the point of the alcove.
Three sleepers. Then one blanket at an hour that was still evening.
The sweeper did not chase. Chasing was how you became a map.
They told Tam at the next knock, after the gauge, because that was the order of the world.
Tam told a sentence onward.
Nim came back later and sat on the remaining blanket as if sitting could keep a room from becoming a demonstration.
The sweeper finished the floor.
Empty was a kind of dirt you could not sweep.
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