“It's a lifetime filled with tight embraces / the biggest things in the smallest places…”
In less than a month, there will be a war memorial for the dead. Ten days out from that, Yang turns 30. Ruby and Weiss travel to Haven to fetch Yang a part for Bumblebee 2.0 before the memorial – and remember how to stop and smell the roses along the way…
Beginning of the series: "but where's your heart?"
This takes place immediately after "on the eve of bittersweet"
& immediately before "past the black where the sirens sing"
Final part: "so here's my heart"
“traveling down this road / watching the signs as I go / I think I'll follow the sun / isn't everyone just / traveling down their own road / watching the signs as they go?"
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(See the end of the work for more notes.)
III. We Can Find A Little Hope
IV. Past the Black Where the Sirens Sing
VI. With Words I Thought I'd Never Speak (Awake & Unafraid) – epilogue
Every title & story + story part heading / ending is a song lyric.
Story Titles: My Chemical Romance (x2), Jars of Clay, Rhodes, & Mat Kearney
Parts: The Byrds, Gary Lightbody & Johnny McDaid, & Turin Brakes