She'd never meant to be seen.
All she'd wanted was to breathe, to make a hairline fracture in her skin just wide enough to let her lungs expand. To peel back the masks and the makeup and the lies and stare at the one thing that marked her as a normal girl. To swirl her finger red, bring it to her lips, and taste pennies.
No, she'd certainly never wanted to be seen. Because what came next? What came next changed everything.
