Elara’s POV

There is a phase after departure that no one describes accurately.

People talk about reinvention, about freedom, about relief. They rarely talk about drift.

Drift is not aimlessness. It is momentum without anchor. A recalibration of force. When you have spent years applying pressure in one direction, removing that vector does not return you to neutrality. It changes the way everything else feels.

For a long time, I measured my days against impact.

Did something shift?

Did something