Chapter 13
When she woke up the following morning Aiko still had a bitter taste in her mouth and a feeling of anger in her chest from the scenes seen the previous night. She reflected that with her new work in the Mount Fuji Association, these experiences and the associated sensations would become routine so she had to develop an emotional shield to prevent these experiences from affecting her so deeply, a kind of callus in her psyche. For the moment she would try to avoid as far as possible being exposed to them before going to sleep. Aiko was still a sensitive girl raised in a loving family, with an artistic vocation that appealed to the finest fibers of her sensibility and with an attentive boyfriend. The passage from the soft bed in Buenos Aires to the reality of New York had not af
