"It isn't," Gela says helpfully, already beginning to gather things. Her question went unanswered but the way the topic was brought up in the first place makes her think things would be much better for her roommate if she tidied, at the very least, the buttons and the pins. "And I have an office but I use it for paper and not cloth."

See her half of the bedroom: it betrays the inevitable state of the office.

She adds, "I have too many things, I know, but I used to travel around so light, all the time."