She put her fist in you.”

Renee’s voice hardened.

“But you asked me to explain it, so I’m telling you the part I know, which is that whichever of us you’ve decided broke the cycle, you want to be careful.

I didn’t break anything.

I just got out of the building before it came down, and I have spent thirty-six years calling that courage.”

After a while I said, “Then what am I supposed to do with the face?”