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Episode 11
No biggi
Things that happened after, in no order, because that's how they happened.
Rose went to Los Angeles on the Thursday for the movie, with Bob, and with a thing the size of a loaf in a shoebox with holes in it that she carried through security as an emotional support animal and dared anyone to ask. The movie was about a girl who could see two days out, because she'd rewritten it, and Hollywood let her, because she was the biggest thing in the world and because a woman called Marguerite had made a phone call. She met a woman there called Kira who worked in musical theatre and had a voice that did things to rooms, and on the flight back she wrote, on a napkin, the first line of a thing about two Amazon sisters and a rumour, and called it Wished, and didn't tell anyone for a month.
Noor finished Halcyon and came home and stood in the big studio at Varga's with the wall of windows and the wall of mirrors and said to Ricky, "Sixty thousand people and none of them saw me. Explain that." And he said, "That's the job," and she said, "Then I want the job," and Ilse, in the doorway with a cold coffee, said, "You've had it since the casting. Don't be late."