Life-and-death events have an ability to rip people right open. They were wide open now. They dove right in, both of them. And the place where they met was so intensely intimate that it seemed impossible to go back from there; everything was different, nothing else was enough. If in everyday life, at work, you meet at level 2, in a close conversation with a trusted friend at level 4, in a sexual act with someone you love, afterward, you find yourself at level 5— then Sara and József, in a matter of minutes, had climbed straight up to level 6.
