Logically, I know I should let you go. I should stop looking before I get in too deep and move on with my life. That’s how it’s supposed to be.
But I’m still stubborn and obsessive and ambitious. Sburb took so much, but it couldn’t take that, and it can’t take what few memories I have left.
You have been with me, your blood mingled with mine, your ectoplasm reformed into human shape in the same room, your hugs and kisses burned into my skin for far too long for me to let go of you.
If my brothers or my best friend died today it wouldn’t stop them from being my brothers, it wouldn’t stop my love for them, and if they were resurrected elsewhere it wouldn’t stop me from trying to find them.
So after all this time, after searching for what was missing my entire life, after years of staring up at the stars and wondering why I was born on the wrong planet and who it was I was missing, why should I let go of you?
I hope you remember. I hope all of you remember. The truth is, I don’t even want to let go. I just tell myself I should because--I’m scared. There are so many Daves and so few Kanayas, too few Jades and Johns that stray wildly from my canon, there are Terezis that hate me (there are lots of Terezis that hate me), there are--there are too many, and simultaneously too few. And I’m scared that I’ll look and look and throw my life away and never make a dent in the ocean I’d cross to get to you all.