AU
asheravery:
“I’ve never stopped changing, despite how badly I used to wish I fit the norm. I always wanted to be like everyone else that I met. As courteous. As generous. As fierce and proud. It turns out, I could be all of it, and none of it.” What he meant was, Asher hadn’t ever let himself grow stagnant, because that didn’t seem like an option that existed to him. Staying the same felt like a cardinal sin, a waste of living. At least now, with the cool ocean breeze threatening to take his breath away, Asher knew that all he was doing was running. Whether it was to something, or away, it didn’t matter. He was tired. Life shouldn’t have been such a battle to exist.
.
Later, as the bow of the ship she stood on now took its final breath before sinking beneath the icy waters that ravenously lashed at her skin, she would think of this moment hoping in memory it might give her as much warmth and comfort as it had in its time. Prija Avery would never make it to the shores she’d sought, and maybe that was not such a tragedy. Because in the end—even alone and shivering—she had finally been free, she had been changed, and now would be forever.
~ Le Fin ~