Completely content in her own company, usually preferring it, Sila has scarcely felt loneliness. Or, perhaps she’s never put the name to the feeling. She used to get full on people watching or her studies, on sitting in the same room as her sister without much talk between them, on cups of coffee with her closest friends. Lately things feel like they have been happening around her, near her, but not to her. She’s been a little touch starved for theatrics. She’s...bored. No, lonely. Whatever it might be, she’s determined today to try to ease it. Sila briefly ponders that if she could be unlonely, who might she be unlonely with? “Are you busy, Peter? Mind if I bother you?” She’s brought her own book as she approaches him in case he is busy; she will sit herself beside him quietly regardless. She needs this, so she will commit. She flashes her book to him to show she brought entertainment, but a part of her hopes she won’t have to open it. @munozpeter














