High fit

Brightness is about how you illuminate a situation — whether you point toward the dark or the hopeful. Juliet Holmes's mother could have responded to that moment with despair, rage, or silence. Instead she turned the light directly on the absurdity: it's the same water, from the same pipes. That was a Brightness move — not pretending the darkness wasn't there, but showing her daughters that the system's logic was hollow. She lit the lie from the inside.