While this story didn't hit all my personal "like" buttons, I'm going to go against the consensus that nothing happened and nothing changed. This is a story that's heavy on internal conflict and light on the external, but the conflict is there. It's a story about the struggle to form meaningful relationships, the risk it involves, and the fact that oftentimes people are just plain mismatched in their expectations when they approach one another. At the far end of the spectrum, you've got the silkpups, creatures that instantly latch onto the first thing that touches them in such a profoundly irreversible way that they literally die if they are abandoned. The other extreme is the Ken, who are so detached that they will form the bond with a silkpup deliberately, just to watch in fascination as they die. It's blind devotion set against casual cruelty.
The other characters fall along this spectrum, with the big parallel being Suki, who like a silkpup is longing for a new relationship and ready to form a bond, and Roan, who like the Ken, leads Suki on only to casually abandon her just when she was starting to get attached. Interestingly, this is also how Suki treats her former lover, Tam. He is still attached to her after his re-embodiment thingie, but she wants to break it off, and her approach is to just ignore him and his attempts to reach out to her.
Only Suki's Beast neighbors are perfectly matched in the whole story. I liked how they bookend the story, offering a ray of hope that in spite of all this, real connections do sometimes happen.