Oh I love this so much. Some other commenters are putting way too much literal through into the bubbles thing, the point isn't the literal cause of her feelings, it's what she's feeling: she's got a secret that isolates her from everyone she wants to get close to that she feels a simultaneous desperate urge to share but fatalistic terror at the thought of that sharing going wrong. It's an excellent portrayal of that feeling that plenty of real people have felt for various reasons, most obviously being gay and/or trans in a homophobic and/or transphobic society. The plot isn't what's primarily important here, it's just the means to an end of, hopefully, making you empathize with this character and what she's feeling. The feeling is the thing that matters, everything else is in service to the feeling.
In general this author is really really good at these kinds of metaphorical stories that use that metaphor to depict complex and heavy emotions, and I adore them for it.
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