Northstar Vale We are the ones who will never be broken

Her heart hurt—for both of them, if she were honest. Her insecurities had begun to pull them apart, as she had assumed they would. His own mind was off kilter, at best, and she hesitated to wonder if it were from Akashingo or something that had been coming.

It hurt to know that he had to be forced into retirement just to finally come to Epoch—even though he countered it was not the true reason he left, it was still something that had to happen before he chose.

He had made a choice—and now he was here. Fennec had spoken to him—told him perhaps in words far more to the point and factual than she would have been able to. She had wanted him to choose her.

“I do love it here,” she began, her teeth worrying her lip as she shuffled, feeling entirely wrung out from everything that had happened over recent events. “But I love it because it has so much promise for… for us.”