Right! Who would want to take in someone they don't know, even if it was just for the night? It was risky, although I looked pitiful enough for anyone to take me in. The woman wasn't at fault, nobody was. I was used to being rejected, so this one wasn't new.
I left her house, not dejected but determined to find another place to pass the night.
Or maybe I was dejected but just didn't want to show it??
I smiled at myself, telling Hera that everything would be okay, although she didn't ask me. She should be my companion who talks to me in hard times like this, but Hera barely talks. She doesn't see the need to converse with me when she's in pain or when we are in danger.
I wheeled my chair through the festival places as I didn't see the need to stop staring at anything. They were all
