All I ever wanted was you.
A sob chokes out of her even though she tries to catch it before it seeps out into the night air. The aftershocks feel as though they will shake her entire body to pieces. She can’t even think clearly now, it’s nothing but pain. There’s no relief, no sense that she has done the right thing by telling the truth. She cannot even imagine walk away from this spot, walking away from him, though one of them will need to leave eventually.
He voices the thoughts in her mind and it almost makes her smile.
What do they do now? Agetta genuinely has no idea. All her dreams about possible futures are obscured by a haze that’s choking her. She had once pictured two clear paths - but she didn't realize that she could not exist in one after giving up the other. It is not possible for her to move on from this, to chase a future without Plume. There’s only one thing that seems possible, a path that leads to a final and soothing darkness.
Maybe that’s where she finds her relief.
“I don’t know.” She answers, her voice soft and ragged. It’s an effort to look at him and she only just manages it. “All I know is I can’t imagine going back to a life without you in it, Plume. Not again.” She hears how selfish these words are as she speaks them and shakes her head once again as though that action can clear them away so she can try again.
“Tell me what you need. Please.”
@[plume]