Lilah loves you.
She is afraid of the depth of Lilah’s love, because she knows what it means to be loved like that. It means someone has seen you—truly seen you—and has decided to stay anyway. And Bronwin, for all her light, carries shadows of her own. She has been burned before. She has trusted, and that trust was shattered like glass on a marble floor. She has loved, and that love was answered with silence. So when Lilah looks at her with those eyes—those fierce, unwavering eyes that hold nothing but truth—Bronwin wants to run. She wants to run because staying means being vulnerable, and vulnerability has always been the wolf at her door.
But Bronwin Aurora is afraid.
But Lilah is patient.
Until then, the world keeps spinning. The dawn still breaks. The sky still blushes with that impossible shade of pink and gold. And somewhere, in the quiet spaces between heartbeats, a voice whispers the only truth that has ever mattered:
Bronwin Aurora walks through life as if the universe itself had painted her from a dream. Her hair catches the sun like spun copper, her eyes hold the depth of a forest untouched by time, and her voice—her voice is the sound of rain on thirsty ground. She is the kind of beautiful that makes poets weep and lovers lie awake, tracing constellations on their ceilings, wondering if such a creature could ever be real. But she is real. More real than the ache in your chest when you see her smile. More real than the way the world seems to hold its breath whenever she enters a room.