"Only people who've underestimated you," Sharon tells her. She squeezes back, trying to memorize the feeling of her aunt's hand in hers, young and strong and smooth.

She's had weeks here of keeping her mouth shut, of not talking about the future except in the most oblique terms, but suddenly now it all comes battering at the back of her teeth. "Aunt Peggy – "

She grimaces and bites it back. "There's so much I wish I could tell you."