And today?

"Exhausted. Whatever it was that kept - that kept - "

Her breathing shorts and she sits low in the knuckles of her shoulders.
It is hard seeing her without her pride.

She whistles out a breath and a smile flinches in and out of her face. Like a bird trying to settle on soft ground.

"I have been eating my tail. It makes me feel sick."

She make an aborted gestures and scratches hard at the skin above her elbow, under her sleeve.