The paper arrived on her desk in March.
Fifteen pages, handwritten in Mira's careful and slightly cramped script, the handwriting of someone who had been trained to write neatly and was still in the process of developing their own hand from the trained template. The title was formal and slightly longer than necessary, in the way of someone who has not yet learned that titles work best when they are shorter than they want to be.
Consciousness Continuity and Experiential Memory in Wolf Hibernation States: Preliminary Observations from Clinical Documentation and First-Person Witness Account.
Elowen read it at her desk on a Thursday afternoon with the March light coming through the window and a cup of cooling tea beside her.
Mira had done something she had not fully anticipated when she ga
