I knew what happened to someone when they spent so much time alone that they genuinely stopped remembering how to function around normal people. I knew what it meant for someone’s state of mind to only be able to rely on themselves for survival. I knew what it meant for someone when their literal life was the only thing they had that was worth protecting because everything else had already been taken. It didn’t take much guessing to figure out what her world had been like before if the only word she associated with love was safety.
