“Lata blinked. The sunlight — the first sunlight in six days. The sunlight that was assault and gift simultaneously, the eyes weeping again (the physiological weeping, the biology of light after darkness) and the skin feeling the warmth that was not the canteen's reflected warmth but the sun's warmth, the actual warmth, the warmth that came from outside the body and that entered the body and that said: you are alive, you are on the surface, the world has a sun and the sun is warm.”