Crossed Lines
Because somehow, she could feel him out there, somewhere beneath the same rain, learning how to stand still the way she always had, learning what it meant to wait instead of command.
Elara let her forehead rest against the glass, eyes closing.
Maybe that was what love really was; not the chaos, not the sparks, not the endless push and pull. Maybe it was the pause between all of it. The stillness that asked nothing and offered everything.
For the first time in a long time, she didn’t feel hunted by her thoughts.
She just felt.
The world outside blurred again, and she whispered into the quiet, not for him to hear, but for herself.
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