Chapter 58
- I woke to the muffled scuffle of shoes and the antiseptic hum of the ward.
- For a moment, I wasn't sure where I was, then the bed creaked beneath me and reality seeped back like an unwelcome tide.
- I was by myself on the bed Baba had insisted they give us, with a thin blanket folded beneath my knees. Pen's scarf was crumpled beside me, and my hair smelled faintly of hospital soap and the tears of the previous night.