Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Overmorrow
This world is called Overmorrow. It is the land where good things were always said to come "the day after tomorrow." Not tomorrow, but the day after. It was just the right distance for counting on your fingers.
In Overmorrow, a promise with a date on it has weight. When someone says "it comes on that day," the hearts of everyone who waits are laid, one upon another, on that date. The more people wait, the heavier the day becomes.
When the promised thing arrives on its day, all that weight is set down at once. The hearts that were laid there turn to light and scatter, and people called that light the Unbound Light. The old folk called this moment "the Coming-Down." We call it "the Drop."
So before a drop means "it is out," it means "you may set it down now." This book is the story of the people who never heard those words.
End of chapter 1
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