They agreed on a Tuesday.
Not because Tuesday was significant but because Amara had a contract law seminar on Monday and a foundation meeting on Wednesday and Tuesday was the day that existed between the things that needed existing between, which was, Zara was beginning to understand, how Amara Mensah organized most things — finding the precise gap and occupying it with intention.
Grace had arranged it. A coffee shop in the part of the city that was equidistant from both their universities — neutral ground, which Zara recognized as deliberate and respected immediately.
She took the bus. Forty minutes, the January city moving past the window in its winter configuration — grey and precise and entirely itself, stripped of the softening that autumn light had provided and standing now in its
