The replacement car was a black sedan. The driver didn't ask any questions and, when the partition was raised without being asked, he did exactly the right thing. They sat down at the back and the city through the window was coming closer in a very particular way it must have been the way the city comes closer when it is the place you are returning to after having done something difficult piece by piece building up, until it is the complete and overwhelming fact of home.
Adrian actually had been talking even before the car came. And he was not talking in the way he usually talked, not in the complete precise information-organized sentences, but in the rather loose way of someone who, after being taken to an unexpected place in their own story is quite unexpectedly, finding that this place
