We should review the terms.

She turned the phrase over.

She pulled a weed from the soil.

We should review the terms.

She had known it was possible. She had sat in the car by the water that morning and she had catalogued her fears with the specific and particular honesty of solitude and the fear of the coldness returning had been at the top of the list. She had known it was possible. She had not, somehow, despite the knowing, fully inhabited the possibility — had not fully felt it in advance. Knowing a thing and feeling it were different countries, she had learned this before, and she was...