Tuesday, Three Weeks Later
Camila moved to Lisbon on a Tuesday.
Not permanently — she told herself that clearly, told Daniel that clearly, told her mother who looked at her with the calm of someone who understood that not permanently was sometimes a sentence that solved itself with time.
She found a flat near the Intendente, two bedrooms, third floor, adequate light. The rent was high enough to require the careful mental arithmetic she'd been doing for five years, but Dra. Tavares had advised proximity, and proximity to Leonardo for the sake of the legal process required, in practice, proximity to Lisbon.
Daniel adapted in the way that small children adapted to things when the person they trusted most treated the change as ordinary: he asked about the new nursery, inspected his new roo
