Vivian’s eyes are maps—cartographies of places she has been and those she has only imagined. They catalog both scars and constellations. When she looks at a person, she reads not their clothes but their edges: where kindness ends and fear begins, where confidence masks doubt. She listens in long, slow breaths, making room for others to reveal their center or their fractures. People walk away from her feeling noticed, as if she has stitched a seam in them that had long been fraying.