"I've been mostly just leaning into trying to soak up as much of it as I can while it lasts," Eleanor offered, and, despite herself, despite everything, she had to smile, thinking about half-meat-lovers pizzas and poetry in Urdu and her slowly building personal art gallery, "and just bracing myself. Like preparing for a storm. So far, it's been working out pretty well. I mean, if it's inevitably going to end, at least I'll have this, here and now."
Re: NFB for this chunk, pls!