Nothing felt right. Coming to Taxon hadn’t felt wrong but now it all felt entirely off and slanted sideways and she couldn’t seem to make her mind stop spinning even if it felt like it was the ground beneath her. Part of her wanted to hide, to do what she never had before and bow her head and pretend the world was not there. It wasn't something she did then, nor that she would allow herself now.

Still she kept her chin raised despite the way her lip trembled, carefully wrapping the yarn about the parchment and securing it with deft fingers. That they shook more than a little bit was something she tried to ignore. She glanced over, taking a breath. “I can look away if you’d rather.”