User blog comment:Promestein/Starcross - Birthday/@comment-28644276-20190302055306

So all this leads me to Edith.

It's interesting how while at the border of another breakdown, this new factor immediately makes Alice willing to try again... And just as she finds something new that she may want to at least imagine how it would be if it was her own, it gets shattered almost immediately.

The attention to detail around this part is great. It mentions so many things that are taken for granted on pretty much anyone's daily lifes (like reading a book) and never taken notice of, but even such distractions from reality are not something Alice can do on her own. Which means even means of escaping the idea of her condition can lead her straight back to the thoughts of it when, inevitable, she realizes so many things she can't do.

There's an interesting point around here though. Around this point Alice mentions that she ran away from the few people that might have been able to help her in fear of said assistance being tantamount to putting an end to her existence/giving her "peaceful rest".

Where there people like mediums or with some capability to perceive the supernatural who could see her or was this quote with an entirely different meaning? Or was it people that she imagined could help if she approached, but never really did (thus them being able to help would be more an assumption of her than necessarily something that would happen)?