Title: Ephemeris, Ch. 13 WC: 3,000 this chapter, ~32,000 so far (my word count got off somewhere along the way)
Rating: T
Summary: "It's for the best. The part of her she wants to be-the part she's been growing into since she met him- believes. But it's small and fragile. It's been built up like this. In loss and pain and more kinds of fear than she can count. It's at war with years of habit. With the fact that she's still more at home with loneliness than she is with this."