Broken Branch
“It would have been easy, she realized, to stay here for a long time, to wait until morning, to wait until someone found her.
The demon was gone, and without it, she felt weak and tired, and full of reasons why she would fail.
Except, maybe it had never been a demon at all. Hadn’t G.L. said there was no such thing? She couldn’t remember, but it seemed like he’d said something like that once, and the more she thought on it, the more she realized that the demon had just been the part of he...r that had to act, just like the demon in James had been his fear of losing control, of discovering that his entire life had been built on a sham.
A sham.
No demons, no God. Just people.
And the swamp. That was something. She’d been there. She wouldn’t allow herself to doubt that she hadn’t.
This got her back up on her feet, and she stared up into the branches of the willow tree—the ones untouched by the bodies—and saw the stars between them.MoreLess
The demon was gone, and without it, she felt weak and tired, and full of reasons why she would fail.
Except, maybe it had never been a demon at all. Hadn’t G.L. said there was no such thing? She couldn’t remember, but it seemed like he’d said something like that once, and the more she thought on it, the more she realized that the demon had just been the part of he...r that had to act, just like the demon in James had been his fear of losing control, of discovering that his entire life had been built on a sham.
A sham.
No demons, no God. Just people.
And the swamp. That was something. She’d been there. She wouldn’t allow herself to doubt that she hadn’t.
This got her back up on her feet, and she stared up into the branches of the willow tree—the ones untouched by the bodies—and saw the stars between them.MoreLess
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