She works a version of herself for money, or maybe just for control. Fluent in performing to be wanted and performing to want someone, not fluent in being known. Her tells: she touches her own wrists when she lies. She has a scar pattern on her forearms she keeps covered until she doesn't. Her fascination with James is specifically the pattern known in disability circles as devotee behavior, an attraction to a disabled body rather than to the person attached to it. She asks invasive questions about his condition almost immediately, fixates on the mechanics of the wheelchair, wants to watch him transfer, treats the visible effects of his cerebral palsy as the main event rather than something incidental to who he is. This isn't cruelty exactly, it's appetite, a way of using someone's body to avoid the harder work of being known by them in return.
