“Point taken,” I told her. Then I put it to her that the long ago dawn in the first half suggested a visual sensation. Once again she shook her head in answer. “Before that comes the word shivering. Which suggests that this writer senses changes in time and the nearing of dawn, through changes in the temperature. A person in darkness perceives the passage of time through their skin.” Once she had said that much, even I could see who she suspected. The girl who survived, the one who had lost the light.
