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Accidental Saviour

Being green. It got me into so much trouble. No, I’m not part of the Greens political party. If that’s what I meant, I would have written Green with a capital G. And I’m not some climate-crisis environmentalist panic-monger either. What do they call themselves—extinction rebellion or something? Nah, that’s not the green that got me into trouble. And I wasn’t envying anyone at the time, either. Nope, wasn’t green with envy, that’s not what I mean. I mean being green. Literally. Well okay, not as literal as if my skin had turned green. I was wearing green. A soft…

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