It wasn’t as if she’d had a grand heartbreak. She had no real trauma to explain why she was the way she was. It was more just years’ worth of little cracks in her heart, like in the glass panes of the failed greenhouses. Her family loved her, but she never really found her place with them on Eano. And the library … She never truly fit there either. She drifted through life, wanting and reaching but never having, always feeling just a little lost and just a little empty and just a little lonely.
Oof
