Temporary People, Permanent Evolution

I am not a people person. They don't warm up to me fast enough, and honestly — I don't particularly like them either. I don't feel I belong to their species. They exhaust me in ways I can't always explain. My relationship with humans is, in a nutshell, complicated. That said, I have a few. A small, rotating few who connect to me genuinely — and that circle shifts every few years depending on where…