It is weather policy.

Part Eighteen: From the Other Side

I asked Evelyn, about a year afterward, what those nine minutes had been like for her, and she said, “What nine minutes?”

And I explained that I had stood at a window for nine minutes before she woke up.

She looked at me for a while.

And then she said: “Marcus, I want you to understand something and I want you to not make it worse than it is.

“I was asleep.”