When you get caught up in describing a character's life-changing childhood injury:
Whenever her thoughts gravitated toward the injury and the crash, it usually brought a sharp pain to her groin, like there are still pins and wires and plates holding the brittle pieces of her body together; like the tissue is still dying inside her. Her leg had been so terribly severed and crushed that the doctors in Teora could not salvage it. For nearly a year, she wore braces and supports. The doctors had, however, been able to piece her insides back together as best they could, stitching up the puzzle pieces in her gut with these flimsy-seeming sutures. There was still a jagged and ugly scar that cut across her lower abdomen. It had long turned paler in color than the rest of her skin and had formed a dark outline, giving the scar the appearance of having a shadow.
I really enjoy the flash-back structure I decided on for the fic. It's a neat narrative device that I had planned to incorporate from the beginning. It explores how the past has impacted the protagonist's character and parallels what happened with what is happening.
It's a component of the Book of Boba Fett I wish they had kept.
