The storm came in on the seventeenth night, from the west, over the hills, the way the bad ones did.
Isabelle liked storms. She always had. She had the shutters open and the rain was coming in on the sill and she did not care, and for the first hour she stood at the window and let the wind take her hair to pieces and felt, for the first time in weeks, like a person.
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