You gave the name on a Thursday at ten to six. It came out too quiet and she had to ask again,
so you said it twice, to a nineteen-year-old, in an empty gym, and it cost nothing,
and you had been braced against it for two years.

That was not the hard part. Keep reading.
You already know which part of the morning was the hard part.

The Book of the Shadow — Return 58:1