So Very Lucky

In its place was a shadow – the outline of a woman, her hand on a standing mic, which she held tilted away from her slightly, a thin line at an angle to the line of her body, straight and determined. Police held back the crowd, their arms moving into shot. A woman near the front convulsed with full body sobs, two flat hands pushing into the glass like it might give way and let her fall through and drag herself over the carpet to Inese’s ankles. Three years away, and she’s finally preparing to show her face to the world again.