[ it's a little of both, but mostly the latter. she's had to relocate numerous times throughout her life (she usually just has a little more input into if and where she's going), so it's less that she's somewhere new and more the method of how she arrived. it's a lot to cope with and she's still in the middle of processing it all.
the runes, on the other hand, are something that reminds her of how she can't do anything about what's happening at home from where she is; a visible manifestation of her lack of control. but that's not ellie's fault, and she doesn't begrudge her for asking. she turns to face the other girl, resting her hand on the edge of the sink. ]
Something like that. A little more science involved, though. [ she is a science experiment, though her origins are a lot more mystical than she'd realized. ] They're encoded into my DNA.
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the runes, on the other hand, are something that reminds her of how she can't do anything about what's happening at home from where she is; a visible manifestation of her lack of control. but that's not ellie's fault, and she doesn't begrudge her for asking. she turns to face the other girl, resting her hand on the edge of the sink. ]
Something like that. A little more science involved, though. [ she is a science experiment, though her origins are a lot more mystical than she'd realized. ] They're encoded into my DNA.