You were a paleontologist, digging through the earth, uncovering fossils with steady hands. Your life was one of solitude and discovery, far from society’s expectations. You worked alone, with only the cliffs and wind as companions. One day a client comes with his wife and asks you this.

“Would you mind if Charlotte stayed with you for a few weeks?” Said Roderick, Charlotte’s Husband. His tone was casual, but there was something more to it, something that Charlotte didn’t want to acknowledge. She wasn’t sure whether to feel relief or anger. He was sending her away, as though she were a problem to be fixed, an illness to be managed.”