Thinking Inside the Box

"Sal idly sipped the last of his beer while studying the troubled woman at the small table near the corner of the dimly lit tavern. She had the ashen look of someone afraid to nudge whatever problem had brought her in for a drink, and she'd been hunched over a mug of flat brew since sometime before he'd walked into Jimmy's Place..."

The thing is, once you've set something in motion, you may have to play God to stop it.