Chapter 45: After the Applause

The signing line took two hours. Wren had never in her life signed a book in front of another human being, had submitted, years ago, to a system where signed copies were mailed out with a stamp facsimile because the thought of a face-to-face exchange made her physically ill, and now she sat at a small table with a stack of pens Priya had produced from somewhere, writing her actual, legal, no-longe...