[so ...each house inhabits a planet, so to speak but some of them are crammed full of people like cellar door or willful machine or zaun or even piltover and others were more like ...if all of trench were only inhabited by the handful of people she knows? that's the idea in her head anyway. which ...has ceased hurting for the most part.]

I dunno about millions. Keeping it small means less chance of assholes, right? And if you've got 'em, at least you've got less.

Woah. I feel ...a little better. [still exhausted, still sad, still angry, but with less aching. what transient queasiness she'd been feeling is also gone.]