[Original] "Ships, Night, Wreckage"

[ap0cryphal]

Title: Ships, Night, Wreckage
Original
Rating: G
Notes: When you know, you know. 

Barefoot on the balcony, fireworks above and music below. She curls her fingers around the railing, thumbs scraping rust.

It’s a quiet two am. The hours preceding were ugly. But her eyes are clear, her breaths even; what fills her lungs is an absence of hate, a peculiar numbness, a prickling that cools her bones.

“When did you know?” a hollow voice says behind her, and she says nothing, letting the moment congeal and wither. “Why wait until now, to say it?”

“I knew when I met you,” she says, later, smiling. “It’s a new year. We deserve new lives.”

-x-

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