Emotional Exploration in Literature

Read the following excerpt from a fictional narrative:

“As Emily stepped into the library, the scent of aged paper and polished wood enveloped her. She wandered among the shelves, tracing her fingers across the spines of books, each one a portal to another world. Her eyes fell upon an old atlas, its cover worn and faded. She carefully pulled it from the shelf and opened it, revealing maps filled with names of places she had only dreamed of visiting. In that moment, Emily felt a longing stir within her, a desire for adventure that her small town could never satisfy.”