She doesn’t tell them the rest. That a morning star is not a star at all, but a planet—Venus—the one that shines brightest just before dawn, when the night is darkest. The one that refuses to go out.
But vessels crack under pressure. That’s just physics. justdanica
So Justdanica learned to keep her fractures on the inside, where no one could see the hairline cracks spreading like winter frost on a windowpane. She doesn’t tell them the rest
When the tears stopped, the rain had stopped, too. The world smelled like wet asphalt and something green—something growing. the rain had stopped