The letter from Evie's supervisor arrived addressed to Nara.
She read it in bay four between patients. Two paragraphs, formal, the specific language of academic and professional recommendation. The second paragraph contained one sentence she read three times.
*In twenty-two years of supervising community medical practitioners, Evie Harrow is the most consequential student to have come through this program.*
She folded the letter.
Put it in her coat pocket.
Thought about a seventeen-year-old in an outer territory clinic testing a footnote seventeen times with inadequate equipment because she couldn't stop.
*Twenty-two years,* Solène said.
*Yes,* Nara said.
*The most consequential,* Solène said.
*Yes,* Nara said.
She forwarded the letter to Evie that evening with no message.
Evie
