echoes of wild laughter and recognized it as my own as I licked up the last of the water and collapsed on the floor and into myself. I would do anything to stay here. To keep it safe.
I laid there most the night in pure ecstasy with no thought beyond the limitless joy the water brought me and then, when that began to die down, I felt the first tendrils of wanting more, of the pain of returning to the gray of normal life.
Two thoughts came to me: one, how had I ever hidden the Grail from myself when that meant living inside this hideous and ugly existence? And two: how could I protect the Grail from anyone else who sought it?
Katherine Sparrow is the author of the ongoing series “The Fay Morgan Chronicles” as well as dozens of short stories that have been published widely. She’s been nominated for a Nebula Award and attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop.
She got into the whole writing thing about fifteen years ago when she decided that life was short and made of fire, and she might as well do what she loves and feel passionate about. When she’s not writing, she’s chasing around two adorable and exasperating young children, enjoying Seattle's ample and lovely gloom, and dreaming about an immortal witch and teenagers in trouble.
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