"I think I had been blind. Physically, I mean. My eyes."

"Until one day I wasn't blind."

Half-shrug.

"Colours are scary. Did you know? Terrfying. I mean, they were. At the beginning. I wonder why. I don't understand that, as I am now. I can't understand why colours scared me."

"All I know is that purple was the scariest colour. Back then."

"And red, too. And white. Not that I knew names of colours, back then."

"But even more terrifying was... lights."