Eleven Minutes

CALLA'S POV

Camila and Lucian left on Sunday.

The apartment was very quiet after.

Not uncomfortably quiet — the particular quality of a space that has been full and is now back to its right size. Freya was in the carrier asleep and Kaelen was at his desk and I was at mine and the city was outside doing September things, which in September means the specific crispness of a season that has committed