“Like some kind of fragile vase that will tip off the shelf if upset. They can’t see me. They see the chair.” “They act so uncomfortable,” the Lopen continued. “They don’t want to look, and don’t want to bring it up, but it hovers about the conversation like a storming spren. But if you have the right joke . . .” “Brightness Rysn shouldn’t have to crack jokes at her own expense in order to make other people comfortable with their personal insecurities.” “Yup, true,” the Lopen said. “She shouldn’t have to.”
