Ezra would replay that flicker many times in the months to come.
It told him, before a single word was spoken, that something had been done to these people.
You do not learn to flinch at your own child’s arrival.
Somebody teaches it to you.
Chapter 2 — Medicine, Food, and Housing
To understand the size of what was wrong, you have to understand what Ezra believed to be true, and why he’d believed it for so long.