I want to start by saying, the self isolating spiral that Eleanor engages in, and then needs to be forced out of is such a familiar feeling to me. Her internal world is full of these really interesting extremes of idealistic and cynical, where she will briefly believe something fantastical and then over-correct too harshly, never really landing in any middle ground.
For the amount of words used, I felt there was no time wasted in this game, no excess words used that weren't making a point about the characters or the way they thought. Its a really engaging, well paced story that left me wondering at the end about the interiority of every other character and their motivations, because the main character could be so deeply incurious about them.
Thanks very much for publishing this, I think I'll be chewing on the themes you wrote about for a while.