Gemotions

The realization hit Amelia like a physical blow. The professor was discussing "her" research, detailing the exact methods and conclusions she'd spent a year formulating. A coldness spread through her limbs. She felt a strange tingling in her fingertips.

She excused herself from the lecture hall without a word, her heart pounding a frantic rhythm against her ribs. She needed to get away, to be alone. The world seemed to shrink around her as she walked away, and the weight on her shoulders was heavier than she had ever remembered it to be.

She sank into a bench outside, the campus buzzing around her, but she felt utterly isolated, the weight of the situation crushing her.