Somewhere down there, there’s a tiny sliver of green just taking its time. This is how everything works. You wait. You lay low. And then you come to life.

Carrie uses the unseen progress of something green to explain a period that appears inactive. Waiting and keeping out of view are treated as stages before emergence. The movement toward life gives the delay a purpose, rather than making the delay itself evidence that nothing is happening.

Context reviewed 28 September 2026