دەنگی هاوبەش

BEAT 14 — VINCENT AND KENJI AT KIM'S — THE PRICE OF SAFETY Both of them in Kim's doorway — Kim at his bench, the movement half-assembled; a gear the size of an eyelash removed from its case, patient on the cloth beside the loupe; he turns, reads the room before he reads their faces, sets down the movement Vincent speaks first, simply; Kim says again: he cannot pay — his wife, the pharmacy bag, the money doesn't exist; he says it with the same dignity, to Vincent's face, with Kenji in the room;