He said come to the advanced session. He didn't say they'd be happy about it.
Sophie is asleep when I leave. I don't wake her. There are decisions I make quietly and alone not because I want to exclude her but because she would have opinions, and her opinions would be correct, and I'm not in a state to argue with correct opinions at five in the morning after three hours of broken sleep.
I've been running the conversation through my head since I got back to the room at two. What he said. How he said it. The way he looked at the circuit I burned into the grass , not with alarm, not with the contained expression of someone deciding how dangerous I am. With attention. The specific, focused attention of someone reading something they find interesting.
I don't know what to do with someone who
