Waiting on a Bright Moon

One life is not that much of a price to pay.”

“Surely my life is worth the freedom of the people?

But you have your song. It is all that you have, and you have to pray that it will be enough.

the connection that cannot be erased.

“But we’ll be together. Now nothing will come between us.”

Suqing, battered and exhausted, but alive. Alive.

“Now nothing in the universe can keep us apart.”

You are falling into her song, as she is falling into yours,

“The path of rebellion is lined with death,” she says. “And I didn’t want to die full of regrets.”

as though everything that passed before had been a dream, and this has been the only reality you’ve known.