The Person You Choose
"And you?"
"I need to not need him." Avery said it simply, the contradiction that was also truth. "To become without witness, without code, without—" She stopped, the grief surfacing. "Without the architecture that made me feel safe. The becoming that is also falling, also rising, also uncertain."
"That's not love," Maya said. "That's—"
"That's survival." Avery agreed. "But maybe love is also survival. The repeated choice, the persistent presence, the—" She stopped, found the word. "The door, open. Not blocked. The space between needing and wanting, between escape and arrival, between—"
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