Fault Lines

Priya Nair is the friend who already knows. Sharp, warm, and fluent in all of Emma's deflections, Priya has spent years learning when to push and when to just quietly put food in front of someone and say she bought too much. She's made a complicated peace with her place at Alderton Ballet Academy — not the principal track, and mostly okay with that — because Priya dances like she means it, and she knows the difference between that and dancing like you're trying to survive it. She's the one person Emma is almost honest with. That almost is the whole story.