72 parts Complete People carry grief differently. Some let it shape them. Others let it hollow them out until there's nothing left but survival. They choose solitude, because what is the point of living when the soul is gone?
Leo doesn't carry grief-he's buried beneath it.
Ariella is left to watch it destroy the man her best friend loved.
Two people, broken in different ways: one trying to outrun grief, the other trying to escape the pain of witnessing it.