Fractured
The distinction mattered.
The glade took notice. The ambient glow, which had hovered like held breath, descended and spun, weaving itself through their hair, along their wrists, across their joined fingers. The moss shifted from velvet to something like muscle—firm, supportive, carrying their weight back to them rather than absorbing it. The oaks’ leaves turned their faces, not to the moon alone but to the point where the three of them met, as if light were a noun that could be plural and was.
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