How Light Learns to Hide

Vi saw her and knew.
Caitlyn saw Vi...and everything got complicated.

One grew up in the South Side, where dreams don't survive.
The other was raised in luxury, where perfection was a cage.

They stand together for years, caught in the gravity of what's never said.

But something has been waiting in the dark - and it's finally reaching for them.

Will they ever name the light they've always kept hidden?

"Vi swallowed thickly, her heartbeat pounding so loud in her temples it drowned out everything else.
It felt like it was pumping molten gold; dense, burning, and unbearably precious.
She was a paradox made flesh. A hurricane of stillness. Chaos flooding in perfect harmony.
How could something so dizzying, so immense, feel so soothing?
How could the tight knot in her throat be the only thing keeping her grounded?
Nothing seemed to exist but the sheer need to answer those damn questions. Two forces crammed into a space too tight not to clash."