Summary

Zee is now a successful and sought-after crisis response counsellor in Chicago. She hasn’t worked for Teach and Reach for nearly four years, though her and Noelle are still together. She is excellent at her job and revered by her clients and co-workers. She runs her own trauma team, which takes her all over Chicago helping people to cope with the after-effects of a crisis or a shock. Zee finds that the greater the trauma, the better she is at focusing on it as she doesn’t falter or balk in the face of crisis.

Upon receiving a phone call from Greer explaining that she has quit her job and that things have gone horribly wrong with Faith, Zee immediately invites her to come see her. Zee and Noelle now live together in a part of town that has “a pretty significant...