The Game

Summary

• The character is playing a game with her daughter, Molly, trying to piece together the details of her current life in a different timeline, where she's married to a man named Ash.
• They live in Cambridge, and she works as a Philosophy teacher at Cambridge University. Molly also reveals that her mother is stopping her teaching work to write a book.
• Molly's father, Ash, is a surgeon who works at a location in Cambridge and is known for playing music badly.
• Molly has relatives, Aunt Jaya, Uncle Joe, and Uncle Ewan. Uncle Joe, in particular, is the character's brother, and they have a good relationship in this timeline.
• Molly's grandparents only include Grandma Sal; the character refrains from asking about her own parents' deaths.
• Despite some struggles, Molly suggests that her family is happy. They have a Labrador dog named Plato.
• The character wakes up to find herself alone with Plato. She sees the sunlight through the curtains, indicating it's morning, and seems to be waiting for Ash's arrival.
• Nora feels disheveled after sleeping on the floor and tries to quickly prepare herself before Ash, who she simultaneously knows and doesn't know, arrives.