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    “You do not have to be good.
    You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
    You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
    Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
    Meanwhile the world goes on.”

    -- “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver

    Alternate Title: Rook goes through the Mind!Ossuary on Nightmare Difficulty

    This is basically an AU of my longfic "Hold Me Like Water, Or Hold Me Like A Knife" where instead of choosing Treviso, Rook chooses her home instead. Lucanis cuts off their relationship, and they both move on, but Complicated Feelings aren't easy to run from, and Rook, Neve, and Lucanis have bucketloads of those. To be completely honest, I wrote this solely for the angst.

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