A fight like this was stunning, revealing not just how much he was on the lookout for enemies, but how he was unable to abandon arguments which escalated into rage. He had not yet learned to back off, and held bitterly to principles. As the air seemed to grow thick with loathing. All over a matter that could never be resolved. They went to bed speechless, parted speechless the next morning, and during the day were overtaken by fear - that one would never come home, and that the other would not be there. Their luck held, however. They came together in the late afternoon pale with contrition, shaking with love, like people who had narrowly escaped an earthquake and had been walking around in naked desolation.
