[It’s unfortunate for Liem that the person he finds beneath the Tree has such an immediate and obvious emotional breakdown. Comforting others has never felt easy for him; he’s always worried he’ll make things worse somehow, or that he’s seeing some vulnerability that he wasn’t meant to witness. He his fingers tense on the tree’s bark as he watches her, shifting back as though he might just withdraw out of sight entirely.

But he can’t just leave her here in the dirt. If she needs privacy, surely it would be better for her to at least have a room of her own to have her breakdown in.]

There may be a way to bring it all back—but you don’t have to worry about that before you’re ready. There are free rooms for newcomers, if you’d just like to bathe and rest. I can take you to them.