REMI'S POV
The appointment was on a Wednesday afternoon, which was different from the Friday appointments we'd had before — Okafor's schedule had shifted and the Wednesday slot was the one that worked. It was a small thing. It registered because the Fridays had become, over the past two months, a specific kind of anchor to the week. Something to orient around. The Wednesday felt, on the drive over, slightly unmoored, which was not a reaction I thought was proportionate to a scheduling change and which I noted and did not say out loud.
Dax drove.
This had been established sometime around week sixteen, when his car had been available and mine had not and the arrangement had simply continued because neither of us had suggested changing it. He drove and I looked out the window at the city m
