The prose is so good and the emotions sizzle off the screen and onto my skin I love it so much. The feelings in this are so earnest and beautiful I couldn't help but cry. As someone with not much of a personal/emotional connection to dolls or kigu this was so beautifully done... The closeness of touch with a layer of fabric/PVC or the distance of intimate skin-to-skin... and the connecting themes between Deirdre's relationship and the time she spends inside the kigu.. aauuggh I couldn't help being utterly gripped by it. Thank you for making this, both of you.