Marco closed the laptop with a hand that trembled. He stayed in the chair a moment longer, the café’s ordinary sounds reasserting themselves. Lila slid a mug of coffee across the counter as if she, too, had known he might need warmth after being unmade and remade. He told her—briefly and awkwardly—what he had seen. She listened without surprise. That was another effect of the Inquisitor: people stopped treating you like a ghost when you stopped holding yourself like one.