I am better at the machine than I ever expected to be and will never be as good as she was, and that is the correct and comfortable order of things.

Yusuf got into his engineering program and comes home on breaks and goes straight to the second machine out of habit.

Deja finished her training and works days now, but she still brings Bo by on Thursdays, and he calls me Gil-Gil and is not astonished by the world anymore, which is a small loss I feel more than I expected.

Lottie runs the tea like a general.