Found

We had to unlearn what we’d learnt in those part time years. Had to normalise. Be brought back into the human fold. Relearn our human skills.

It was like we were wild children, who could only communicate in hoots. Like we were Kasper Hausers – only semi-civilised. Still out beyond the human pale.

 

We’d been all but down and out. All but dossers. Technically homeless, for all those years. Subsisting on less than the dole would pay. Cashless. Prospectless. Each mad, in their own way. Each contorted. Each crabbed.

 

But we were inside now. The fight of our lives was over. We had to relearn the human arts. The arts of living. We had to be brought back into human civilisation.

We weren’t outcasts anymore. Not staggerers and stumblers anymore. Not obscure – not lost. We’d been Found.