Their life was threaded with ritual because ritual turned the unknown into something they could control. Every Friday they painted one square of the ceiling map in bright watercolor: coral for the coral reef, silver for the moon’s cold face. Each paint stroke made the sealed room seem larger. The ceiling became a sky by degrees.

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