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    It is only when Hao is being consumed by fire, the flames licking insistently at her ankles and running across the fabric of her skirts, that Hanbin realizes she is not the ocean at all—all this time, she has wondered about the absoluteness of her, drowning in the surety that nothing, other than the sea, is so loud and all-consuming and fatal: but Hao burns. Somehow, Hanbin has not seen it until this moment, but she sees it now, obvious and glaring and threatening to melt her to liquid; Hao burns, so bright and fierce that it's blinding. Not even a being as large and endless as the ocean could deliver this grace to her, as Hao’s glowing figure does now.

    (There is a sharp pang in Hanbin’s chest, impossible to ignore, and she feels her eyes grow wet from the sting of smoke and the gentle caress of Hao's unignorable beauty. It is now that she understands the finality of her situation: she is, hopelessly and endlessly, in love with this woman. She thinks she will die from this pain.)

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