Bettany left a note on the chart.
Not a clinical note — a personal one, in the specific small script she used when something needed to be said in writing. Nara found it when she picked up the first chart of the morning.
*Dr. Voss Ashveil. The ward has been yours for six years. It will continue to be yours for as long as you want it. This has not changed. — B.*
That was all.
No occasion for it. No anniversary, no milestone Nara was aware of. Just: Bettany, who noted things when they needed noting, noting this.
She held the chart.
Bettany was at the station.
"There was no specific reason," Nara said.
"No," Bettany said. Without turning.
"You wrote it because you wanted to write it," Nara said.
"I wrote it because it's true and I hadn't said it directly," Bettany said. "I considered
