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Summary:

A letter to Juliette, from Marsh.

Notes:

takes place in an au of mine called the seabird au, where marsh grabs the twins and goes to the seafarers for protection from the Lightbearers, having told them about all the dissolution and everything. they're only Loosely allied with the seafarers and it's mostly bc what better protection from a cult than another cult.

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Juliette Jules Lady Lantern Juliette,

Forgive me for writing this I'm sorry to say I don't know how to start this letter. You were always the one better at words than me. Why would you Why couldn't you talk to me I don't know what happened to you, in the years after I left you became something I didn't recognize he died and you looked broken and I couldn't fix it Salvador's death passing disappearance from our lives. I'm sorry I left couldn't stay. I'm sorry I didn't do more for you. I'm sorry I wasn't there to

 

It's a betrayal to write this letter at all. What the hell else am I supposed to do I won't ask for forgiveness. You were never the kind to forgive anyways. I tried my best to forgive for you but it wasn't

 

The Twin Divi are with me. Castor and Pollux. They're everything and more dear to me, though I never understood how you could just watch them suffer I know you are not as close to them as I am. Don't worry Jules, they're safe. I will keep them safe it's the only mission you gave me, remember?. You gave them to me, to watch over, so I will. I still don't know how you could hurt them. Do you remember, when we were little, and you cried when my Ma had to kill a chicken that'd got a taste for egg? Do you remember how kind you used to be? What happened to that Jules? What made you like this?

 

I'll be long gone by the time you see this letter. I'll miss you. I hope, for both of our sakes, that I never see you again. I hope the twins grow up happy, and forgetting your face. Maybe I'll take the twins to see the sea, or the vast forests of our hometown in the kingdom of Leo. Maybe I'll take them to visit the Algo Republic, like you'd always wanted to visit. I don't know, but I know that we're free now. You can't keep us chained down anymore.

 

Goodbye, Jules. I'm sorry things weren't different.

 

— Eira

Notes:

not pictured is the way juliette absolutely lost her shit over this letter.

also not pictured, but relevant to the au, is that marsh lives (obviously) and castor and pollux grow up on the sonya-nyl (which never quite stays in one place, so the lightbearers can't Find Them), with their not-uncle elton and celeste. once murphy gets there she becomes the twins' little sister of sorts :]

this is also the first and only time i will write something with marsh's first name (which is eira). all other times they are marsh and marsh Only.

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