Part 3, Chapter 10: “An Ending”

Keisha: There are no happy endings, because there are no endings. There is always a next moment, even if we aren’t involved in it.



Alice: So many of them… dead. And we have brought them here to fight and to die. Was it our fault? Or was it worth it, it was, right? To end this, right?

Keisha: There is no end to the story. But there is an end to our telling of it. And I think that end has come.

Alice: It was over, and we buried our dead and walked away from that place. Sylvia was gone, or she was – everywhere and would be forever, but wasn’t Sylvia anymore. I didn’t know how to feel about that, because I didn’t know what it was really.

Keisha: Sylvia chose that. She wanted me to know that she chose it. And so I chose to be happy for her.

Alice: Through the night, we drove.

Keisha: We didn’t talk.

Alice: Morning came.

Keisha: And with it, familiar streets.

Alice: She pulled the truck to a stop.

Keisha: We opened the front door.

Alice: And together…

Keisha: And together…

Alice: At last…

Keisha: We came home.

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