She performs at a level most people never reach, carries far more than anyone assigned her, and arrives with an exhaustion that rest does not touch. Most practitioners reach for the word burnout. It usually misses, and misdiagnosed power sends a practitioner in the wrong direction with the client who can least afford it.

A person who has lived their entire life inside a cage, who has never been outside it, who has no memory of anything beyond its walls — to them, the cage is the world. The boundaries of their captivity feel like the natural boundaries of reality.