alphabet challenge - h

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 H - Fire

 

They talk about it sometimes, what it must have been like before. With adults and electric light at the flick of a switch. With food they didn’t have to forage, clothes they could just go buy, and not needing to spend so much time making candles.

 

Always making candles, because there are never enough.

 

Candles are good, easy, accessible. Candles make rings and they’re safe, and it’s easier to make a candle than it is to constantly gather and make a fire to last the night. Fires are good, but they aren’t best. They’ve learned that.

 

Just like they learned how long the sun lasts in each room, how much food they can get out of the garden, how to garden, how to cook, cleaning and gutting, all the incidental things that used to exist just in their mother’s domain and now is theirs.

 

Fire is good, but not best.