Summary

That evening, Maria and Luisa sat in Luisa’s living room. Luisa told Maria that the death had changed the ways she thinks. Whenever she heard an ambulance or police siren, she would put herself into the mind of the victim. She would imagine their thoughts and always find herself back in the mind of her late husband. She wondered what his final thoughts had been as he was killed.

As Luisa recounted the suffering she believed Miguel to have gone through in his final moments, Maria felt the need to interrupt. She told Luisa that he could not have possibly thought or suffered much as the attack happened so quickly. After sharing this, Maria was not sure why she had interjected. Luisa agreed with Maria. She did not know why she had started to imagine the thoughts of others as she...