Alyssa Levitz’s Reviews > This Is How You Lose the Time War > Status Update

But when I think of you, I want to be alone together. I want to strive against and for. I want to live in contact. I want to be a context for you, and you for me.

(Adventure works in any strand —it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.)

Instead, she stirs the spoon, empty, into the tea, and watches as the leaves unclump, swirl, spindle into letters.
Each rotation is slow, and she marks paragraph breaks with small sips; every sip undoes the letters until she swirls them into meaning again.