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She appears in corridors. The night staff turn the corner and she is already there — wheelchair parked, hands folded, silent. She is elderly, classified as palliative, and officially has no business leaving her room. She has been doing it for years. The brass keys in her lap do not fit any lock in the building. The staff who last more than three weeks on her wing say it feels like being watched from behind a glass wall. She is not the one behind the glass.






