And she said to him, ‘I look around me and all I can see is pain. I see pain living in people’s eyes, in their lungs, in their bones. You can see that it hurts for some people just to breathe, and when winter comes and the wind touches them, you can see their bodies cringe as it enters the cracks of their broken soul, forcing them to face all the pain they’ve been trying to avoid. And some people are in so much pain that when the wind pierces their skin, it doesn’t touch them at all; it goes right through them because they have numbed themselves long ago. And I can see that the ones who have numbed themselves, they no longer ache. And that’s what I want. I don’t want to feel this pain anymore.’