Status Updates From Birdsong

“We will seal what we have seen in the silence of our hearts and no words will reach us.”

“I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.”

“Oh God, oh God.” Weir began to cry. “What have we done? Listen to it. We’ve done something terrible, we’ll never get back to how it was before.”

“Now as he listened, he could hear what Weir had meant: it was a low, continuous moaning. He could not make out any individual pain, but the sound ran down to the river on their left and up over the hill for half a mile or more. As his ear became used to the absence of guns, Stephen could hear it more clearly: it sounded to him like the earth was groaning.”