SERA“What did you say to him after,” Elliot said.He asked it the moment Helena finished delivering the sentence, leaning forward at the table, needing the full account before he could process what James had said.“Nothing immediately,” Helena said. She had come to sit across from her parents. Hands flat on the surface. “I looked at him for a long time and he looked back. He was not performing it. He was not repeating something he had overheard. He said it the way he says more. From somewhere inside the knowing.”“Then what,” Sera said.“I asked him what he knew. I said: tell me what you know.” She held their gaze. “He was quiet for a moment. Then he said: the people. I said: which people. He said: the people who need it.”The kitchen was completely still.“I had not used that phrase with him,” Helena said. “I had said the people inside the harm. I had said the people the argument was built for. I never said the people who need it. He arrived at those words himself.”Sera put her cof
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