The Weight of Gold
“I think she understood, from the first call, that things were different.”
“Different how?”
“I think she could hear it,” he said simply. “People can hear it when someone is — when there’s someone.”
The workshop was very quiet. Outside, the cold bright day went on without them. The smell of sawdust and linseed oil, the chisels in their row, the bottles of stain — walnut, ebony, honey, ghost — and the chair between them.
“There’s someone,” Eleanor said. She said it as a fact, not a question, not a statement requiring confirmation. Just the fact of it, out in the air.