Whisper of Thoughts
I saw the sun, the sand, and the person I had fought every battle to keep.
The world was vast, and it was chaotic, and it would always be filled with people who wanted to build towers and rewrite the minds of others. But for tonight, the beach was silent.
The tide was coming in, cleaning the sand of our footprints, and we were whole. We didn't have a plan for tomorrow, and we didn't have a guarantee of forever. We just had the quiet, and we had each other.
And as the last of the sun slipped away, turning the world to shadow and starlight, I knew that even if the end was coming, it would be a human end. Quiet. Honest. And finally, truly, free.