9 parts Complete MatureWarmth and shame. They're all Ailyn felt anymore. Two sides of the same coin, tangled up in the only person she had left.
In 2084, the world was falling apart, but it didn't collapse all at once. It faded slowly, piece by piece, like her family. Like her. Ailyn and Airen were running. Not just from the house they left behind, but from everything it took from them. The rain fell heavy, the neon lights blurred, and the city promised nothing but hollow shelter.
But in the quiet moments, when it was just the two of them, there was something else. A fragile connection, a desperate longing for love and safety in a world that forgot them. It was messy. It was real. It was their only place to fall.