The town wakes with little white cups and louder regrets; Fu10 eases into the day the way tide eases from a shore—reluctant, inevitable. Children chase the sound of her tires as if chasing a rumor; old men say, "There goes the woman who picks up lost things," and they mean more than lost wallets. She is not a savior, only a cartographer of nocturnes, mapping where sorrow hides.