Chapter 12: Yuki Tsurumi, Subject Profile, Sessions 1–14

The four words sat on the page.

Hana did not read them aloud.

She turned back to the beginning instead — turned all the way back, to the first page, to the intake form stapled behind the manila cover — and started again from the top, because she needed to understand the architecture of the thing before she allowed herself to stand inside it. This was how she had always worked. This was the only way she knew to hold something without being held by it.