it’s a feeling she knows well; one she was born into. it’s not exactly fear, it’s more nuanced than that: it’s like feeling your sense of orientation slip away from your grip, like feeling the ice beginning to crack beneath your feet when you know you can’t run away just yet. it’s scary, but she knows it: perhaps that’s why she’s there, sitting beside him despite being a million miles away, sitting beside will’s sleeping body and at the same time sharing the sunlight-filled view of a mexican market with lito. “it’s gonna be alright”. easy words, but she trusts them; she would have been the first to wave them away like simple preacher talk only a few months ago, but now — things have changed now. they have changed. “we’re here”.