「虎は私の中に住んでいる。でも、檻は私が作った。」

It was truncated, of course. Everything about Lynn’s life felt truncated.

But at 10:12 PM, a client—Mrs. Chen, whose daughter was applying to Keio’s elementary附属—sent a 3-minute voice memo. Lynn listened at 1.5x speed while Kenji waited in the bedroom, the sheets already turned down. The memo was about hiragana stroke order. The daughter’s ‘ta’ looked lazy.