* private / eyes.

finding  the  words  to  describe  her,  to  put  pen  to  paper  someone  who  has  very  successfully  eluded  definition,  is  a  herculean  task  on  its  own.  she  spent  her  life  identifying  the  secrets  of  others  and  was  careful  to  obfuscate  her  own.  her  childhood,  her  pre-college  years,  her  big  love  affair,  all  of  those  things  were  so  carefully  packed  away  that  the  likelihood  they'll  see  the  light  is  quiet  unlikely  ...  or  it  would  be,  if  she  weren't  open  to  sitting  down  and  talking  herself  in  a  way  that  would  be  much  like  having  an  audiobook  playing  in  the  background.  perhaps  so  many  years  of  holding  secrets  in  has  made  her  want  to  share  them.  or  perhaps,  like  many  things,  this  is  one  of  those  moves  she  makes  on  the  chess  board,  sacrificing  pawns  to  take  knights  and  queens.