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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
I found this fanfic about Battat being a lightner and I absolutely love this concept!
Hannibal // The Magnus Archives
tell me of certainty
anyway: please kiss me, please keep me. i don’t think i could stand it if you loved me so much you let me go. anyway: tell me you’ll stay, tell me you’ll stay, tell me that not only will you be with me but you’ll want to be with me. tell me of course. tell me why not. tell me there was no choice except the choice to disregard all other choices. tell me you’re sure of me. tell me you want nothing more. i need someone who is certain, and i need that to be you. anyway: if you want to stay then please stay and if you want to go then i will just go on letting you go.
on contradiction
all right, listen to me carefully. i wish i had a way to know for sure whether anyone takes my words to heart. listen, listen. you are a paradox in your own right, you are whatever you make of the dream you are having—for what is life but a series of self-given choices? drift or don’t, but know what it means to contradict yourself time and again. if you’ve been listening, you should know: we make it rain by setting everything on fire, we make it storm by longing for the sun. and here is your life—or so i have said—the product of every dream you’ve dreamed and chosen to remember.
tacit
the rules of a life are as follows: we cannot unknow what we already know we cannot unlearn what we’ve already learned we cannot unsee what we’ve already seen and damage, once done, is damaged for good.
why is it so difficult to get through, this fact that has always been and always will be? that the past is unchanging, that dwelling on our deeds has never for a moment changed them. why, still, is the lack of action toward undoing actions that cannot be undone allowed to define us? we, who have no power over the passage of time? we, who are bound by the rules of a life we do not get to choose to live?
Now I just want to be free to make the choices I want to make without fear.
—Zoey Draven, Captive of the Horde King