Noctisardor Bypass sonsom

for a moment it is just their bodies in the dark; warm to the touch, close.

ava looked at heda in full, beholding her mama's thinned features, darkened by stress. for a long while she just looked, memorizing every line as it undulated and wavered -- but then she came to, and sighed.

it was unloving a thing as ava had ever thought: no, i do not want to go back.

but she knew the past would never let mama go.