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After a lifeti behind that is ht

Both of her hands cup my face Violetta stares at s ently "And when you shine, you shine bright"

Her words are starting to turn soft, and she is beginning to fade Or perhaps I aone now, leaving the inside of me quiet, but I don’t miss them In their place, there is the war of her heart that I can hear against her chest, the knowledge that she will leave this place and return to the living

Please, I whisper, and iano I love hirateful

"Adelina," Violetta says, alar faint "Wait I can’t--"

Go, I say gently, giving her a sad smile Violetta and I stare at each other until I can hardly see her Then she disappears into the darkness, and the world around round beneath my cheek I feel the pulse of ure of Moritas bends to enfold ht I take a slow breath

So but dust and wind, what tale will they tell about me?

Another slow breath

Another

A final exhale

Violetta Aend about Co, over her sister’s dying soul, she thinks of it

Adelina had first told this story when they were very sardens of their old ho contentedly while she braided her sister’s silver hair, wishing her own hair could look so beautiful, grateful and guilty that she did not have to bear the consequences of it Long ago, Adelina had said, when the world was young, the god Aratefully turned their backs on hi and thunder, and pushed up the seas to drown the kingdohter, Coel of Empathy, had fallen in love with Eratosthenes, a boy in the kingdom Only Compasia dared to defy Holy Amare Even as her father drowned mankind in his floods, Compasia reached down to her h above the floodwaters, above the her still, until his feathers turned to stardust

Every night, when the world was quiet and only the stars were awake, Compasia would descend from the heavens to the earth, and the constellation of Coether, the tould walk the world until the dawn separated theain