Bloom, Shifting

Elliot.
The name sits on my tongue, melting as if it
were sugar. Elliot.
I hold that sweet name in my mouth all the way
home, mouthing it to the darkness.

She moves to the city to learn how to write. She trades redwoods for skyscrapers and leaves for University. It is on the streets of the city, lost and nervous, that she meets Elliot.
Elliot knows the city, understands it. She shows Ava the underbelly, and how loving each other the way she has always wanted to love a girl is okay.
And then she is raped, and their story unwinds from there.

Trigger Warning: Rape.

Cover by lukopsis, posted on comicvine.com almost 3 years ago.