The X-ray took an hour to come back, and they filled it with talking, because Deniz Kaya was a talker in the way of people who are alone a great deal.
She was doing a master's in art history that nobody in the family took seriously. She had lived in Rome for a year and been brought home. She had a friend called Mert who was not a friend, and when she said the name her voice did a small thing, and Zara understood approximately everything and asked nothing.