Now she was in a room full of people trained to watch what calmness tries to hide.
The officer asked her to step aside.
She tried to refuse.
She asked whether she was being accused.
She asked whether I had put them up to this.
She asked to see Eli.
The doctor came out then and said, firmly, “Not yet.”
Those two words almost folded her in half.
I had thought I would feel satisfaction when someone finally saw what I had been trying to show them.
I did not.
I felt sick.
