My Name Will Be Edith Proir," She

I Breathe In. The Water Will Wash My Wounds Clean. I Breathe Out. My Mother Submerged Me In Water When I Was A Baby, To Give Me To God. It Has Been A Long Time Since I Thought About God, But I Think About Him Now. It Is Only Natural. I Am Glad, Suddenly, That I Shot Eric In The Foot Instead Of The Head.

I Have Your Back. I Didn't Mean Only When It's Easy. All The Time.

It's Like He Knows, He Knows I Have A Thing For Her.

He Holds My Face In Both Hands And Kisses Me Back. I Press Into The Distance Between Us Until It Is Gone, Crushing The Secrets We Have Kept And The Suspicions We Have Harbored-for Good, I Hope.

If I Don't Survive," I Say, "tell Tobias I Didn't Want To Leave Him.