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The dream was over, because it was becoming real.

Fear was like the decay the rest of me dissolved into, every reaction becoming just another form of terror.

If he was a glacier, I was a mountain. Glaciers could melt.

“The hope that I’ll be let into someone’s heart again one day.”
I pondered. “You wanted that with me?”
“Still do. You see the problem? I wanted you to be my shelter. But you deserve someone who will shelter you, treat you as more than the antidote to being alone. You, also, deserve to be real. Not the vessel of my dream.”

“You look sleek. Like a goddess of the stars.”

Rosalina had no doubt faced this with dozens of girls, or with Leo’s boys who she’d helped take in. Suicide was always a threat, a killer more subtle and persistent than the most vengeful of ghosts. It haunted our kind with a special doggedness.