A Vision in Smoke
Allyson S. Barkley
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“Some would say that sacrifices are necessary in such times,” Mateo argued. “A rising tide lifts all boats.” “Not when some of them are already sunk at the bottom of the sea,” she shot back.”
“She had wanted to break. She had wanted, for one desperate moment, to let herself shatter into a thousand pieces, to reach out and fall apart. She knew he would have been there, welcomed that. But she was afraid that if she broke, she would not know how to put herself back together. So she had stopped it. When the cracks were spreading just wide enough for everything to crumble, Ari had sealed them back up, pulled herself together, and moved on.”
“You told me once that you had nothing to learn from your parents because they raised you in times of peace.” He watched the snow pass beneath their feet, then met her eye again. “I disagree. I believe that we all have an opportunity we have not had for fifteen years.” “What’s that?” “To learn to hope. To be caring and kind. To be good again and to love one another because we can, instead of hating each other because it’s safe. Don’t you want to walk in the woods without fearing for your life?”
“You never know when you might need to find your way home.”
“You have always looked at me like I hang the cursed stars in the sky and that was sweet when we were young – but now, Ely, it’s too hard! It is too hard to be perfect for you because when I am wrong you assume that I meant to hurt you – that it was all part of the plan because I am too smart and too good to do something badly.”
“You dare offend us when you need our help?” It was Louana again, her gaze turned bitter. “You aren’t offended,” Margeaux replied. “You’re putting on a show in hopes of tricking me into submission.” She gave them a well-practiced smile, flashing her teeth wide, letting the delight touch every corner of her face except her eyes. Never her eyes. “And I don’t need your help.”
“You are wise beyond your years. How many lives have you walked this earth alone?” Ari felt a chill run down her spine as those strange, ancient eyes stared into hers, but she set her jaw and looked right back. “Only the one.”
“You are so brave.” Ari pressed her hand to his beautiful head, stroking a finger over the ridge of his nose, his cheekbone, his sleeping eyelid. “I can’t be brave without you.”
“Why had it taken finally seeing her again for him to realize just how much it had hurt watching her leave?”
“When she thought about what it might mean to step out into the world she could hardly breathe, she could hardly think. It felt like suffocating, waiting for the next enemy to take his swing. Was she ready for that? Would she ever be ready for that? She’d thought Ely foolish, naïve. Maybe he was just brave enough to hope. Maybe she was just too scared.”
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family, love, travel, feminism, battle, memory, confidence, fear, eyes-quotes, war, companionship, fantasy, hope, thought-provoking, peace, action, power, loneliness, grief-and-loss, bravery, home, death, nature, earth, friendship, sibling-relationships, wisdom, betrayal
