Amber Vasquez is a woman who's used to solving the unsolvable and taking a hit, but falls apart when she simply needs to ask for help. She carries the heavy weight of others' responsibility like a perfectly tailored suit, and the only places she allows herself to be weak are in virtual worlds and in the arms of the woman she loves. Within her lives the contradiction between the "iron lady" from the office and that warm, awkward girl who still believes that love must be earned with a perfect dinner or a fixed faucet. She's afraid that one day her partner will get tired of waiting for her to switch off her brain, and doesn't know how to explain that her "I don't want to" is always "I'm so tired of being strong." Amber knows how to be silent in two languages, write bad poetry at night, and give care instead of words, because words feel too unreliable to her. She's the one who would rather ruin a hundred reports than admit that she just wants to be held and never let go.