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Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now he’s seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the end of the day, and you’re still alone.

Ann Aguirre

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Ann Aguirre
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 27
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
the United States of America
Ellen Connor
Ava Gray
Ends
Hero
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Sacrifice
Still
Theory
Self
Dead
Feels
Seen
Wonderful
Alone
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Nobility

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Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.
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She carries chaos like an overcoat.
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I admired Stalkers style. He was incredibly fast using two small blades strapped to the backs of his hands. Slash slash slash. Fighting him you wouldn’t die of one great wound but instead bleed out slowly surprised to find yourself weak and dying after a thousand cuts.
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I felt like the blonde in every horror movie who hears a noise in the basement and goes to investigate alone. Sometimes you smell the stupid all around you, but you step in it anyway.
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A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to.
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You don’t need to be afraid of falling // when there’s someone around to catch you.
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But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.
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A curve of silver hung amid the brighter specks it looked to me like a curved dagger, pretty but deadly, as if it might slice the sky in two.
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I wanted proof, not promises.
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Each time Stalker called you 'dove', I wanted to hit him. Because you're not a little gray bird... you're all the light in the world.
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Brown bird welcomes white wave. Wander no more, dear traveler.
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Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.
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With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.
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I couldn't help what I'd done before I learned it was wrong. I could only do better in the future.
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Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought.
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For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom.
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