And the young woman took her hands down from her face to look for her clothes.

I saw her.

She saw me.

And it was Chloe.

I want to describe what happened in my body, because I have never been able to describe it adequately and I keep trying.

It was not shock.

Shock is fast.

This was slow, and it went downward, and it started at the top of my head and moved through me like cold water in a pipe, and by the time it reached my feet I had stopped being able to hear properly.