Summoning Trouble

For Nariah Boyd, final delivery for a client was always tangled in conflicting emotions. The satisfaction of a creative work well done butted up against the knowledge that, for her client, this moment was a gut-wrenching reminder of what they’d lost. There were usually tears.

Nariah… didn’t handle tears well. Especially other people’s.

And other people didn’t handle her well in the middle of them.