snapped her fingers shut At the porch, she hesitated. Yellow tape fluttered at the door. The windows were boarded up.Elizabeth touched flaking paint and thought of all the things that had died on the

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snapped her fingers shut

At the porch, she hesitated. Yellow tape fluttered at the door. The windows were boarded up.
Elizabeth touched flaking paint and thought of all the things that had died on the other side of the door.
Five days, she told herself. I can handle this. But her hand shook when she reached for the knob.
She stared at it, disbelieving, then snapped her fingers shut. She stood for a long minute, then

retreated in disarray for the first time since pinning on a badge.

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It is kind of a metaphor, but also an action: she went from trying to be open to what was happening to her but couldn't so she closed up, by doing that her hands and fingers went from exploring their surroundings to pulling away, back to her and she closed her hands up, rolling her fingers into balls in the palms of her hands, in a tense way.

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