Eleanor hesitated. Then she picked up the clam-shaped device. Its rubber button had gone soft. The screen was a faint ghost of gray. She pressed the button one last time, out of habit. Nothing. The silence felt final.

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Then she closed the laptop, put the phone on the charger, and sat with her tea. The rain had stopped. Outside, London glittered with wet lights. She thought about Victor, about passwords and keys, about how the things we keep safe are never just numbers. They are grocery bills, school shoes, a holiday to Cornwall, a funeral.

She placed it in Priya’s palm.

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