When the session ended, the lamp was lowered, and the loft exhaled. Jane smoothed the min top and, for a moment, looked at the camera as if acknowledging that twelve digits and a date could never contain all of what had passed between light and pose. She slipped into the doorway where the storm-slick street reflected neon like a fractured mirror, and the night accepted her—unhurried, bright, irretrievably her own.