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But that ship had sailed so far beyond the horizon, it practically lifted its middle finger in farewell.

Evie started, “Sometimes family
Isn’t a thing we are born into but a choice we make. Sometimes” - Evie smiled - “the people who love you most in your life are the ones who choose you”

“You know as well as I, Trystan Maverine, that humans demonize what they cannot understand. It isn’t our job to educate them, just to live the way we’re meant to with the knowledge that being called a monster does not make you one”

She was afraid, but she knew now: fear usually meant you were standing on the edge of something new, something self-altering, something potentially good. Fear was not something she would shy away from ever again.