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HL - Where nobody knows your name (Library Dec.)

'Twas the morning after Christmas, and Ona lay awake in her bed looking up at the ceiling and questioning all of her life's decisions up until that point in time. It had been the first time in her life that she had celebrated Christmas all alone. In fact, she had spent the last month in Raccolto basically all by her lonesome, and though solitude had never bothered her before, it was one thing to spend Christmas alone because she wanted to and another to spend Christmas alone because she had no choice. Ona knew it was mostly her fault-- sure, she had been busy trying to get the house and hall restored to somewhat living conditions, and sure, she did kind of need the quiet after the hectic months following Eloi's death, but she had sort of locked herself in her house/hall, feeling too tired (and, even though this embarrassed, shy) to try and be social. She just didn't have the energy. And this was the downside of trying to run away to somewhere new where nobody knew her name-- she had