Chapter 127

Aria's POV

The new year came in quietly and then, as new years did, became itself.

Kira started the observation section of her notebook on the first morning of January, as she'd said she would. Not with ceremony — she opened to a fresh page and wrote the date and then a single sentence: *Today the light came in at a low angle and turned the kitchen floor into something you'd want to look at.*

She showed me before breakfast.

"First entry," she said.

"Good beginning."

"It's just what I saw." She looked at the sentence. "That's the point. What I could see from where I was standing."...