This started out looking like a bog-standard plot line, but this chapter stands out in ways I was not expecting.
There's a lot of things that don't make sense in this world and in the MC's situation, but this is the first time I started to think that maybe they don't make sense on purpose. Could there be more than meets the eye? I dunno, but I'm more interested now than when I started reading.
The MC has some serious character flaws, and if Wolff hadn't called her out on it, I might have gotten frustrated with the author. But I'll take that to mean that the author does realize that her mindset isn't healthy. People finding self-realization is a theme I like, so I can only hope the story follows through.