A fusillade of gunshots shatters the evening stillness, silence a brief backdrop again before a cacophony of police radios and loud voices erupts in its place. No longer cognizant of his surroundings, the young man who is the focus of the radio calls and shouted instructions attempts to rise and resume his journey. Miles away, a mother stirs. She never truly sleeps until her son returns home. Worlds away, a mother-deity [...]