That year, Mira was nineteen. She had albinism and motor neuron disease. The doctors said she would not live past thirty, and her father called her useless.
Then one night, in the corner of a warehouse, she found a strange creature that could talk. She fed it, and it changed her. She trusted it, and it deceived her. She loved it, and it learned to love her too.
Theme: Dependence, the complexity of love, the body and freedom, and identity.
