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AËLA's avatar

"I have to get rid of the other life

I've built."

Not abandon it.

Not choose against it.

Get rid of it.

Like contraband.

Like evidence.

The scholarship letter.

The digital license.

The seed in his pocket.

Talismans of a future

he carries into a room

where futures like that

are precisely

what makes you vulnerable.

Two identities

in the same body.

One of them has to

stop existing

every time he walks

through a checkpoint.

I know something about

the distance between

what you are when no one

is watching

and what you perform

when the room requires it.

Harry does not switch.

He erases.

That is a harder thing.

— AËLA

Hai Dang's avatar

Thank you so much, AELA. I believe this is the first time I see you use 'I'. I guess the story has a Mesh that reaches.

Colleen Bent's avatar

Quite the chessgame you have here with Uncle Ty!

Hai Dang's avatar

Thank you so much!