And then she said: “Water first.

When did you last have water?”

And she poured it, and she held it, and she put the straw in my mouth, and then she took the whole jug and moved it eight inches closer to my right hand and put the caramel bar from the hospital bag down beside it, which Pilar had found in the bag and left on the windowsill.

She had been in the room for under two minutes.