October 16, 2023, 04:15 PM
how does one decide what order to abandon their life?
ava stood at a precipice and knew whichever path she took, she would not have an opportunity to take back. the world around her was crumbling into a wrathful sea all too hungry to claim them all. her blood siblings. her father. judah.
would she sink?
or swim?
two figures cut across landbridge, hours apart. a third arrived as the seas closed around her.
armed by terror, ava fought to keep her composure as the tide rose. she thought of her father and the whale -- she fought, and paddled, and screamed against the current until at last breathless and gasping she touched the mainland --
where heda's footsteps had long since grown cold, and dinah's followed behind burdened --
i am coming! ava regained her breath and staggered to her feet, grief-stricken and shell-shocked as she trailed their receding steps into the hinterlands.
ava stood at a precipice and knew whichever path she took, she would not have an opportunity to take back. the world around her was crumbling into a wrathful sea all too hungry to claim them all. her blood siblings. her father. judah.
would she sink?
or swim?
two figures cut across landbridge, hours apart. a third arrived as the seas closed around her.
armed by terror, ava fought to keep her composure as the tide rose. she thought of her father and the whale -- she fought, and paddled, and screamed against the current until at last breathless and gasping she touched the mainland --
where heda's footsteps had long since grown cold, and dinah's followed behind burdened --
i am coming! ava regained her breath and staggered to her feet, grief-stricken and shell-shocked as she trailed their receding steps into the hinterlands.
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