Camille sent for some food to be brought up. She was right; Laura was starving. Laura washed up in the bathroom, trying to calm her body down. Everything became so unbearably normal. Angelica brought food. Did she know about Camille? Camille got dressed. People told jokes. They talked about what they would do tomorrow. It was painfully normal, as though they didn't know the world had changed in a moment. As though they didn't know how close Laura was to oblivion and how desperately she wanted to go back there.
Camille urged Laura to leave the bed chamber and follow her out into the suite. There, a small table was set with food. Camille only had a bowl of strawberries at her seat.
"Now," she said as they both sat, "you want to know about Marcilla."
Laura nodded.
