You picked the wrong house.

It meant: you misjudged me, all the way to the end, and your misjudgment is why you are on this floor.

I did not need her to understand it.

I needed to have said it.

There are some truths a person has to speak aloud, once, in order to finally set them down, and that was mine.

I said it, and I stood up, and I never spoke to her again.”

Chapter 20 — The Feed Goes Dark