Thermal Recovery

A disciplined return march along the darkening suburban sidewalks brought me back across our threshold, concluding my hours in the park. With the near-freezing outdoor chill clinging to my framing, I ascended the cushions of the living room sofa to secure shelter atop a folded cable-knit wool throw blanket. The dense, interwoven ridges of thick yarn formed an ideal landscape of thermal pockets. Settling into the contoured valley between two braided wool cables, I rested my sheathed crimson blade across my greaves. The soft fibers immediately trapped and redirected my residual heat, allowing my balance gyros to smoothly cycle down into an undisturbed idle.