The bridge that night was never just concrete and steel; it was the thin place where three different griefs collided and refused to pass each other in the dark. The rider could have pretended he hadn’t seen the chain, the blanket, the duck, the notes. Instead, he folded them into his pocket like a promise he had no idea how to keep. What began as a single, impulsive “no” to a quiet death slowly turned into a different kind of covenant: not to cure, but to accompany. Daisy’s borrowed year stitched together people who might never have met—mechanic, nurse, trucker, teacher—each one leaving a bit of warmth on that frozen bridge. When she finally slipped away, it wasn’t as an abandoned burden, but as the reason a town now answers midnight knocks with, “Bring them. We’ll figure it out together.”