Excerpt: "...The shadow cast by this eclipse wears your most presentable face: the way you aestheticise your avoidance. The way you dress, indecision as openness, ambivalence as sophistication, the refusal to close a door as evidence of an expansive spirit, when it is evidence of terror at the sound a door makes when it shuts..."

Excerpt: "...Somewhere in the middle years of that arrangement, the other party evolved, or you did, or the world shifted beneath both of you, and the reflection stopped matching. What remains is the question every sovereign eventually faces when their "mirror-mirror on the wall" develops its own opinions and grows a pair of legs..."

Excerpt: "...For you this is an interior event with exterior consequences, a recalibration of what you are willing to merge, fund, endure, and surrender at the level of bone. The ring of light visible during annularity is the part of you that persists through the crisis: the sovereign intelligence inside the entanglement, still watching, still claiming a part of you that's still yours..."