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Summary
They find each other in the dark, hurt and already missing pieces of themselves. One holds too tightly, trying to keep everyone standing even as the cracks spread. One steps in instead of holding back, sharp-edged and unwilling to pretend this will end well. One is already slipping, laughing through the wrongness like it might not swallow him whole.
Whatever is happening to the world is taking more than it should, leaving people hollowed out or changed into something unrecognisable.
Some survive by cutting the damage out. They don’t. They stay, messy, stubborn, and refusing to let go of what they are, even as it hurts. Bonds form where they shouldn’t, slow, unsteady, and impossible to ignore, and some hold on tighter than the rest, protective in ways that start to mean more than survival.
What they become because of that choice might be the only thing that saves them.
Series
- Part 1 of What Remains