Mr. Eugley—poor old broken Mr. Eugley—was proof that the Shorter Way was real. She didn’t want proof. She wanted not to know about it. Failing that, she wished there were someone she could talk to who would tell her she was all right, that she was not a lunatic. She wanted to find someone who could explain, make sense of a bridge that only existed when she needed it and always took her where she needed to go.
