Chapter 31: Hot Fix

Chapter 31: Hot Fix

She positioned herself behind him, which is to say she was on a space he could not directly observe. One hand found the back of his shoulder, and she worked without asking him to turn or adjust.

He held still, because stillness had been assigned to him as a task, and he chose a particular stain in the concrete wall in front of him to stare at, the way you pick a word in a sentence when the rest of the paragraph reads weirdly. He left the rest to her, which in this case meant trusting someone operating at the base of his skull.

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