“Since last night. During the week, her uniform was the blue and white scrubs of a nurse, the job she had suffered at for twenty-seven years. It was clear she wanted to get away from home, that she was impatient to get away from home. She found her foster father and Mike still awake, playing high stakes UNO at the dimly lit kitchen table. He decided that Hoddy should pay a colossal price for the Dawn Pearl—shame, loneliness, torment, for only through these agencies would he learn your worth.