Re: [Recovery: Marta & Hannah]
Hannah really was okay. She was good at being in the moment, in living there, in feeling the present all the way down to her synthetic middle. She tried not to reside in the past, and she really, really tried not to depend on the future, and so she sat in the comfortable chair and under the pretty window, and she smiled a genuine and truthful smile. This didn't mean that there wasn't a lot in her that wanted to boil over, and it didn't mean that she didn't sometimes want to go out into Repose's forest and just scream until her throat was sore, but right now was right now, and she was glad to be where she was.
Hannah hugged a lot. Amy had done the same, and it was just who she was, and she knew sometimes people didn't like it, but Hannah tended not to think before doing things. So, she hugged. And she didn't mind Marta clinging. Clinging was part of what hugs were about, and Hannah thought too few people hugged each other, and even fewer people admitted when they needed a hug.
She wasn't embarrassed, and she waited patiently until Marta looked at her again? Everything was fine, see?
But the camera wasn't hers. It was on loan, and now Hannah was trying to loan it onward, and she thought it would be wonderful if there were pictures and pictures from all types of people stored in the camera's storage. Different worlds and different ways of seeing, nameless and unlabeled, and all together. "No, no, use it while you're here, okay? And then bring it back, and we can look at the pictures. Okay?" The camera had some pictures on it already, should Marta scroll through. Pictures of a black can lolling in the sun, and pictures of Si at a distance and working on a trailer during midday, Destiny walking around and checking on the girls, the cold and antiseptic lab at Albin, the cook at the diner on the wrong side of the tracks, and a homeless kid by a dumpster. And then today, and there was the outside of the rehab center, and the window, and Marta's profile. But the camera could hold hundreds and hundreds, and Hannah nodded encouragingly.