Chapter 14 · free to read
The plane he had bought a year off left on the sixteenth. The foundation's residency began on the eleventh. Nobody had told anybody either number.
The face in it was hers. The thing the face was looking at was four feet to the left of the frame, out over the river, where it had been all year.
Ploy stood at the end of the rail with the acceptance form folded into her fist and said the place had been his, and that he did not know it had fallen to her.
He had said he was finished with paper. He was making one more anyway, because a year is a year and he had never once skipped a month that he could help.
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