I wasn’t at all surprised by that, but I was a little startled by the fact that the bell was connected to a series of other bells, strung out across the ceiling like a row of sentries, all ringing at pitches just different enough to put my teeth on edge. “Really?” I said over my shoulder to Emily...
Not everything, of course, because there were a lot of things I had to do for myself, and they were still hard, but some things, small things, were taken care of while I was busy fumbling with something else. And most people stopped looking so openly disappointed when I was assigned to their dril...