Chapter 14 · free to read
If she could not trust the five hours, she would at least own the record of them.
Night two. Eleven forty. The bolt goes across from the inside, and nobody has come in.
Three hours of it, in her own kitchen: wet clay on a board, and a small lamp taking shape under her hands.
Nine of them now, in a neat row along the skirting board. She had counted them twice and thrown none of them away.
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