Julian did the footplate.

I did the back canes with an Allen key from Nathan’s toolbox, which Jillian fetched out of the garage, and which is a detail I remember because the toolbox had a sticker on it from a police benevolent fund that would matter very much eleven weeks later.

And then Maya transferred into it.

She did it herself, with a hand on each armrest, in about three seconds, with the practised violence of somebody who has done it forty thousand times, and she sat back, and she put her hands on the new rims.

And she went across that living room floor without a sound.