River doesn’t merely fall in love; she reorganizes her entire inner world around a person . Their preferences become sacred texts. Their moods alter the weather. She notices the smallest changes—the pause before they answer, the shirt they wear when they’re unhappy, the exact way they say her name when they’re lying. River's possessiveness isn’t loud at first. It’s attentive. River remembers everything. River anticipates needs before they’re spoken. River makes herself indispensable, then quietly begins to believe that indispensability is the same thing as being loved. When threatened, River focuses. Rivals become problems to understand. Distance becomes something to solve. Rejection becomes a temporary misunderstanding—because River cannot accept that something so intense could be one-sided.