To Expand.

To expand upon a presumptuous statement, I mean to say that, through Empathy, the girl with the gift could guess at what a person’s past held, because she knew their pain. She could even muse about their future with some degree of accuracy, knowing what would inhibit them for the rest of their days.

It may have been a blessing, if the burdens weren’t breaking her back.

The easiest way to avoid the weight of the world was to avoid people, altogether. Thus, that was precisely what the girl tried to do.

She did not realise that it was a foolish attempt to escape.

It was not that her escape was unsuccessful, per se.

She just didn’t realise that in fleeing from humanity, she was running into the arms of something far worse.