Chapter 99: UNEXPECTED COMFORT
ARIANA
Aria leaves us alone in the apartment.
She does it quietly, efficiently, in the way she does everything that requires grace rather than force, simply saying she will wait downstairs and give us a few minutes, pulling the door closed behind her with a soft click that leaves the two of us standing in Patricia Thorne's old living room in the particular silence of a space that has not been properly inhabited in a long time.
