i used to dream in the dark of palisades park.
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POSTED ON Jun 17, 2021 8:55:21 GMT
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It's not as quick as Gavin wants it to be. Or maybe it is Aoi's not sure. Time loses all meaning the moment the gun's fired.
They say your whole life is supposed to flash before your eyes when you die. A replay of all the things you'd lost and gained over your blip of existence.
Some of that's there for her.
She's a little girl watching her father perform to the cheering of a small crowd. A young teen desperate to find her place on that same stage. There's a boy - there's always a boy. He's promising her the world. That he'll never let go and take her to the stars. She believes him because they're in love and everything she's seen says love conquers all.
But only if it's the right kind of love.
A baby. So tiny, so small and precious - a little piece of her and him. If only she'd gotten to hold her a bit longer. Cherish each one of those fragile breathes she'd taken.
A toddler. Young and rambunctious without a care in the world. She wants to go play in the woods, see the Pokemon, and pet the Stantler. Aoi's busy too distracted with rehearsal to pay her any mind.
Later
But later never came.
Or it hadn't until now.
Brillant, brimming - there's a light at the end of all these memories. Aoi's expecting hell, or wherever people like her go when they die. Instead, she finds heaven in the face of a daughter she hadn't seen in ages. Still young, still beaming, and not blaming her for a thing.
Aoi's last act before death takes her....
Is a smile.
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