"Haven't been," she said. "I didn't even realize it was like this, out here. Way the kids at school talk, the city's all there is. Or all they care about. If I'd known there was some proper quiet..."
She didn't know that she'd come all the time. For all its unnerving loudness, the sheer fury of life passing by, Darrow was fascinating. The world as it was before was fascinating.
But with Riley serving as tangible reminder of how everything could come crashing down, how nothing was safe and how maybe she didn't deserve to be safe, she'd had to get out, if only for a while.
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Date: 2014-03-22 08:18 am (UTC)She didn't know that she'd come all the time. For all its unnerving loudness, the sheer fury of life passing by, Darrow was fascinating. The world as it was before was fascinating.
But with Riley serving as tangible reminder of how everything could come crashing down, how nothing was safe and how maybe she didn't deserve to be safe, she'd had to get out, if only for a while.