“At the top of the shaft: light. Not sunlight — lamplight. A kerosene lantern, the lantern's flame the first light that Lata had seen in five days, the flame that was — Lata's eyes. The eyes that had been in darkness for five days and that were now confronting light and that did what eyes do when the darkness ends: they wept. Not the crying-weeping. The physiological weeping, the tears that the eyes produced to protect themselves from the light's assault, the tears that were not sadness but biology, the body's response to the returning world.”