Petra wrote settled.

Do you know what a nurse is doing when she writes that at four in the morning?

She’s standing there looking at him.

That’s what that word costs.

Nobody writes settled from across a room.

“He was held.

He was turned.

He had his hand held by about eleven different people across two days because that is what those nurses do at three in the morning when nobody’s watching and nobody gets paid extra for it.