Nina and Lila, the nurses, had the gentlest profiles—soft lighting, slow captions, tired eyes. Nina worked in pediatrics, while Lila worked emergency. Lila posted a reel of her holding pressure to a patient’s wound with shaking hands, then smiling through blood. Nina had a post that simply read: “We were all someone’s baby once.”
They looked like women who’d learned how to stay calm when the world fell apart. But they also looked tired of cleaning up other people’s damage. Justin marked Lila: possible. Nina: less so. He wondered if either of them ever asked Lucy what kind of father he’d been.