[Connor + Ava]
Guess that’s a start. Any moment of peace when you’ve lived that sort of life is nothing to take for granted. Sometimes when you’re on guard and anticipating a threat all the time, whether it’s there or not, it can be difficult to allow yourself to feel anything else. At least it was for me.
Even after I got free, I really wasn’t. On the run all the time, searching for ways to save myself from being torn apart cell by cell. I made a lot of rash decisions in my desperation. I almost kidnapped somebody’s child to force their cooperation in helping me, and I almost lost the only person who has ever stood by me. I’m lucky it turned out differently. But I’m still a fugitive back there, there’s a prison out in the middle of the ocean they put people like me. I’ll never be able to live a normal life. I can’t even disguise myself, I’d always have to live off the grid. And it’s hard to escape that mindset, even here.
But at least nobody’s tried to make me kill anyone here. So. Cheers to that.