[A less confident person would feel a little ridiculous for not noticing, but it's hard for Lila to feel as though she's to blame here. After all, the majority of the apartments in the 38-8 are vacant anyway. She knew there was another resident on the seventh floor, but she never thought about what that person might be like. The noise and the lived-in-ness of the eighth floor draws her like a magnet; this one is empty, endless, lonely, a place she goes through to get downstairs and that's more or less it. If she can avoid it, she doesn't go down the hall at all.]
[But then she sees the other shade — a girl, around her age or maybe a little older, drifting towards the elevator. A month ago, she would have been more repelled by other shades than fascinated, but now that she's met Regulus it doesn't feel like as nasty a thought. There's something to be learned here. And then again, maybe she's just curious.]
[That's why she walks from her living room through the wall into 703, then 705. She doesn't know where the occupied apartment is, so it's pure luck that she hits something lived-in by the third unit. It isn't so much that she enters like she owns the place as that she stops in her path once she's through the wall into 707 as if she's inspecting a new investment.]
action, june 30.
[A less confident person would feel a little ridiculous for not noticing, but it's hard for Lila to feel as though she's to blame here. After all, the majority of the apartments in the 38-8 are vacant anyway. She knew there was another resident on the seventh floor, but she never thought about what that person might be like. The noise and the lived-in-ness of the eighth floor draws her like a magnet; this one is empty, endless, lonely, a place she goes through to get downstairs and that's more or less it. If she can avoid it, she doesn't go down the hall at all.]
[But then she sees the other shade — a girl, around her age or maybe a little older, drifting towards the elevator. A month ago, she would have been more repelled by other shades than fascinated, but now that she's met Regulus it doesn't feel like as nasty a thought. There's something to be learned here. And then again, maybe she's just curious.]
[That's why she walks from her living room through the wall into 703, then 705. She doesn't know where the occupied apartment is, so it's pure luck that she hits something lived-in by the third unit. It isn't so much that she enters like she owns the place as that she stops in her path once she's through the wall into 707 as if she's inspecting a new investment.]