Her thoughts sloshed out of her head and into the world, creating watery smudges of all the careful lines she had drawn around her. Without her usual metes and bounds, it became difficult to know where reality started. The idea made her body flash in a hot sweat. She edged outward slowly, but then her mind spilled forward recklessly. Now there was simply nothing left to do but follow, even if only to try to catch it and hold it back.
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