Jamal sings on the levee at night because he has to. Maybe he’s grieving, maybe he’s cursed, maybe the song just won’t leave him alone. But his voice calls things up from the black water: drowned memories, river spirits, Mami Wata, things without names. The fog makes mouths. The cypress trees grow skulls.
Annie stands guard. She doesn’t sing. She doesn’t pray. She dares. Rope in hand, feet planted, she’s the reason the river hasn’t taken him yet. She knows every time he sings, he gets thinner. More light, less boy. She’s buying him time — or fighting off whatever he owes.
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