Four days of deep sleep, hardly any intake except for what comes through a tube into her veins— and so when she opens her eyes and asks for water it seems nearly miraculous— Intermittently, she calls out to presences. Now, her carers say, she says she wants to leave already— She is cocooned into herself, adrift in a sea of bedclothes. They tempt her with pureed cereal, sips of warm milk. Only a few mouthfuls. She is working harder at the mystery of her own going—