Always the last one to leave a gathering, not from loneliness, but because she believes goodbyes should be slow. She folds her coat like a letter. She waves twice.
I. R She arrives like rain on a dry road. Not the storm, but the scent after— petrichor and possibility. Rita doesn’t enter a room. She reminds it what it forgot to feel. 8 rita
Intuition that cuts through small talk. She will not ask, “How are you?” unless she has seven minutes to hear the real answer. Her honesty is a clean window. Always the last one to leave a gathering,