When Evelyne told him that she was leaving again, a cold current passed through Limpet’s own circulatory system. The old, familiar hurt had come to feel almost proprietary, even exciting. Through his work, Limpet had learned to see all the hurt they caused each other as part of an enormous system of fluctuating currents that worked on scales too large to grasp. In their recirculating pain, he and Evelyne were united again. Even saying goodbye to her, again and again, was thick with meaning.
