Giana's question made Elara tilt her head in thought."I know!" She clapped her hands together, grabbed Giana's arm, and set off at once."Hey... wait..."Giana found herself questioning the nature of reality. How was she, the healthy one, struggling to keep up with someone who was supposed to be unwell?Elara's destination was a bookshop. It was a perfectly ordinary store on an ordinary street. It sold books, but also everything else, from stationery and souvenirs to small toys and miscellaneous odds and ends.Giana didn't spend much time in shops. She preferred cafés and lounges, the kind of places where you could sit for hours without anyone noticing.She loved reading, but she had never warmed to bookshops. Most of her books came from online orders. More often than not, she read on a screen. The only paper books she bought in person were the ones that felt worth owning, worth returning to.As a result, she found the place oddly disorienting, and a low-level anxiety settled o
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