Activity

the morning sun glints through the blinds, throwing dappled orange light across her skin

The absurdly casual dress belies a manner both articulate and direct

The aleatory interplay of these factors

That towards which our reflexive attention tends (adtendere) belongs to what narratology calls a metalepsis, by which it refers to the collapse of two narrative levels that are imagined to be distinct and impermeable

There is conversation (rather than peroration)