The receptionist at the clinic, taking the last appointment off the books:
— do you want to rebook?

No.

— that's usually a good sign.

It is a good sign. I have been discharged into an ordinary life with an ordinary bar in it
and nobody at all to report to,
and I stood in the corridor for a while holding my coat,
unsupervised for the first time in a year and not at all sure it was an upgrade.

The Book of the Phoenix — Grind 60:5