(envy)


 

 

 


He took the dice out, and held them in his hand for us to see.

"Gramps had these lucky dice that he kept with him all the time, and he said that between me and the dice, he couldn't lose. So before the paramedics arrived, I took them from him, right out of his pocket. I didn't try to save him, or bring him back to life, I could only think to grab the dice as a reminder of what just happened before the people came to take the body away and ask me all of their questions. You know, do their job and all. What makes a person do something like that, anyway? Why were these two little plastic blocks so important to me all of a sudden, after what I just did?"

 

green they grow: fertile with it