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“The numbness is now merciful. A last few moments of it. Then, the fall.”

“She never took a lover… Instead she grew into a kind of aunt—a woman with sweets and love potions and soft fabrics for the drying of eyes.”

Goals.

"The never-ending ache of love and sorrow… Tears came, and fell. Above us, the constellations spun and the moon paced her weary course."

"I lay back and tried not to think of the minutes passing. Just yesterday we had a wealth of them. Now each was a drop of heartsblood lost."

They grew up too fast… *sigh*

Four chapters in, and I already know this is gonna destroy me worse than Circe.