The first time I saw...

[receiverjonas]

The first time I saw the color red I was playing a game of catch with Asher, with an apple I wasn't supposed to have taken from where the snacks were kept. We were just tossing it back and forth. Throw, catch, throw, catch. We'd done it so many times; just a way to pass the time, boring, even. And then, suddenly the apple changed. For a long time I

Comments

[kit_mcclellan]

You couldn't see red before? Where you colour blind or something?

[receiverjonas]

No, no one in the community could see colors. It's part of Sameness. I could only see it because I had the Capacity to See Beyond. When The Giver started giving me the memories, I started seeing other colors too. I can see all the colors now, all the time.

[kit_mcclellan]

That's weird.

[receiverjonas]

::shrugs:: I guess so.