Gemotions

Eliza sat at the kitchen table, the list spread before her like a challenge. “Speak a foreign language.” She tapped a finger on the paper. The world around her felt both too small and too vast at the same time. The mundane routine of her life pressed down on her with the suffocating weight of a wet blanket.

She felt a sudden, sharp pang of… urgency. That same day, she signed up for an intensive language course, bought a new suitcase, and began browsing plane tickets to anywhere. She didn’t know where she was going, but she had to *begin*.