The building bore her name… and she feared the worst.

and had to sit down halfway up to catch his breath.

That’s when the word I hadn’t wanted to name appeared.

Burden.

She repeated it silently for weeks.

He didn’t tell anyone.

Not even to herself out loud.

But he began to observe everything with different eyes: Lucia’s sigh when she forgot where she had left her glasses, the way she took the hot pot from his continue reading …