It’s as if the rains come to take them away. Grey clouds fading into the blue skies and lingering for the days before but not the days of. And the deluge comes unbroken for a day and a night and another day before easing at the end of the second sunset. The rain comes with the crack of thunder and white bolts across the dark sky and the pattern has held twice now and it will take a third to really prove anything to you but for now you hold it true. Earth beneath the bitumen roads washes away ...