She surfaces only for long enough to clear the table and stumble upstairs, then collapses on her bed. Her eyes are still fixed on the words in front of her. Her parents return and call out a greeting she responds to mechanically; the sun starts setting, and the room is slowly plunged into darkness; but still she doesn’t move. At one point Crookshanks, the only creature in the entire world she knows loves her unconditionally, appears and curls up in her lap. She pets him absently as she continues reading.