"Yes!" She guided his hand back to her shoulder when he was done, and squinted at the ticket. What had been a source of frustration when she first arrived was now valuable information, because even if she could't read the characters that must have been his name, she could read the rest thanks to over a month of lessons. 3-B, huh? That was... Oh! Wasn't that the room Elena slept in? She made a note to enlist the older girl.

"Daozhang should keep this, okay? It's the key to your room."

Giving herself something to think about halted most of the white noise in her mind, helped her focus on something that wasn't the slice across his throat or the tremor in his hand. "Let's go there now. And then... and then we can talk?"