Gemotions

The news arrived through a series of cryptic text messages. Her brother, Daniel, was now a member of a secretive Sufi order. She read the messages again and again, each time feeling a fresh wave of…something.

She had always considered Daniel the most grounded, most practical of her siblings. Now, he was venturing into the unknown, into a world she couldn’t comprehend. She threw her phone on the couch, the action abrupt and clumsy.

She paced back and forth in her apartment. The silence in the small space seemed to amplify her distress. She grabbed her keys and left, needing to move, needing to escape the suffocating weight of this new reality.