First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ William by Mason Coile
Every morning felt like Henry’s first. Perhaps it came from working with code so much, the detailed sequence of inconsequential numbers that resulted in something coming to life, something that had never existed before. Perhaps it was because his aversion to leaving the house had grown so severe that he’d long given up trying, so he was left with only one wonder within his reach. Lily. The woman sitting in the chair next to his bed, smiling in the lovely, vaguely haunted way he sometimes sees as a side effect of overwhelming love, and other times as merely pity.
“That was a bad one,” she says.
“Was I snoring?”
“You were nightmaring. You woke up like I fired a gun next to your ear.”
