Nadia arrives Saturday afternoon.
She comes through the gate with the bag that has been incrementally growing through the months of visits and the specific, settled quality of someone who has completed something significant and is now in the place she wanted to be when the completing arrived.
The Kelsh sentencing was Thursday.
She has been carrying it since Thursday. I can see it in the way she moves, the specific, compressed weight of a thing that has been held for three years finally resolved and now needing somewhere to be put down. She has been putting it down since Thursday in the particular way of people who process through work, through the logistics of arriving, through the movement of getting from Washington to here. Now she is here and the movement has stopped and the putting
