[Segment 2]

at home, on a day like this, and go out to find what there was to find in this small, new world.

The failing had been in the acute lack of company, the dire loneliness that came in the fact that she was so accustomed to a second heartbeat near her own. She’d pushed up rocks, and pulled grass to chew, and kicked around the dirt and leaves to no avail. The universe had taken on a stark, alarming hollowness to the one she had known.

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