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She’d never bothered anyone about the spiny things in her heart.
Does everyone secretly feel lost? Sort of shoved into a corner alone? Do you feel something different when you’re close to trees? Did they ever turn away from you? Do trees care if you begged a boy to kiss you? Have you ever felt like your home wasn’t home anymore? If you were me, where would you run?
What did she want? To be all right with her own heart. To lose the dread and disquiet that gnawed at her chest.
and so on, until she’d found the hole in his confidence and tricked him into letting her go instead. The words were there, in her throat, on her tongue, insistent, demanding, real.
All she said was, “Rin, get down.”
