Nora started school in September.
It was the same week James started school, which was expected, because they were twins and the same age, but the two of them approached it so differently that it felt like two separate events.
James walked in on the first day and immediately found a child who was building something complicated with blocks and sat down to help him, completely unbothered by the newness of the room. Within fifteen minutes he had three friends and a building project.
Nora stood in the doorway for a moment and looked at the room with the focused attention she gave to everything, cataloguing it. Then she walked to the bookshelf, selected a book, found a chair, and sat down with the air of someone who had always been there and expected everyone else to catch up.
The teacher t
