In-yo was surprised when I crept into her arms that night, but she wrapped herself around me like a blanket. “Is there going to be a place for all of us in your world?” I whispered to her, still mindful of the wakeful ears around us. She kissed the top of my head comfortingly, and I told her my secret. She listened calmly, and she wiped my eyes when I cried. It came to me that she held me tighter after that, more protectively, and I might have thought that even then her mind was skipping forward to what came next, if only she hadn’t spoken to me the next day.
