"It’s a fracture ," Jade corrected. "I was trying to open a prop locker that some idiot—probably Robbie—glued shut for his 'performance art.' It caught the edge. I felt the snap in my soul."
"It looks like a jagged mountain range of despair," Jade whispered.
The neon lights of Hollywood Arts hummed with their usual chaotic energy, but the atmosphere in the Black Box theater was uncharacteristically somer. Jade West sat center stage on a tattered velvet throne, staring blankly at her right hand.
"A millimeter?" Jade’s head snapped up, her eyes narrowing. "This was the nail I used to point at people I didn't like. It had authority . Now? Now I just look like I’m indecisive."
"Brenda was sharp. Brenda was lethal," Jade muttered, pacing the stage. "Now I have to file the rest of them down to match. I’ll look like I have... toddler hands ."