— Becky Chambers‘You were comforting her. That’s all it was. You just wanted to her to know that someone cared.’ ‘Nobody should be alone,’ Sissix said. ‘Being alone and untouched . . . there’s no punishment worse than that. And she’s done nothing wrong. She’s just different.’
Replicated under Fair Use from The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers) by Becky Chambers.