Teresa I didn’t know if it was just me or an aftereffect of the whole thing going on, but today came too fast. I blinked my eyes open, narrowing my gaze at the morning light creeping in through the curtains, like it were unsure it should come in. I was already wide awake a couple of hours before, listening to the silence in the house, lying still. With the daylight, I should feel some burst of energy running through me, but all I felt was immobility. The house usually sounded alive, even when everyone pretended to feign silence. From where I was lying, I could hear footsteps below, faded voices in the distance, and muffled sounds of machinery far away. The door to my room swung open, and Keller and Bennett walked in. I had called them before now to let them know of my final d

