Claimed as the Wrong Bride
The sky above it all was that bruised violet she could never quite catch in paint, too much light pollution to be dark, not enough to be any specific color, just this, just Tripicity's sky doing what it always did.
She moved through it the way she always moved through it at this hour. Not quickly, not with her head down, but with a particular kind of presence, eyes up, periphery active, reading the street the way the street needed to be read. She had learned to love this. The specific aliveness of a city at two in the morning, the way it vibrated at a frequency the daytime drowned out. She had painted it thirty times and had not gotten close to right yet and did not intend to stop trying.
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