IN THE FOREST OF THE LOST

[beathollow]

it's all too perfect.

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[cleansewithfire]

[ "It's okay to run away."

...Which was not a thought that had occurred to her when she did exactly that herself almost four years ago. The very notion of whether it was okay or not didn't even cross her mind; it had boiled down to necessity. If she had stayed, she would have only reopened someone else's wounds ad nauseam simply by being there.

(Though it is also true that if she had stayed, she would had her life force taken away too, though perhaps not in quite the same way.)

When the tears start to well up, Sunrise reaches up to wipe away at them, with an air of confusion, like this is an unfamiliar experience. ]