[ there is a sudden piercing hollowness that cleaves through her chest. ]
[ the sky cracks open above them, and she sees it, the singularity upside down like it's through a broken mirror, and annabeth for a few moments does not feel eight centuries years old. she feels like a child and she feels like a teenager at once. she understands what it's like to not be known, for people who are supposed to know her to decide she isn't worth continuing on that path. cassian may not mean it, but it triggers something long buried in her and she stares at him with heartbreak that isn't meant for him so much as others that do not exist in this world and do not exist for the patron of the craft. ]
[ it's an ache she knows even if she can't remember why, and she doesn't want to remember it, not when it already hurts like this on the surface. ]
[ he makes to grab her and she reacts without thinking; annabeth grabs him in turn and moves quickly to throw him off the dock, into the water. ]
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[ the sky cracks open above them, and she sees it, the singularity upside down like it's through a broken mirror, and annabeth for a few moments does not feel eight centuries years old. she feels like a child and she feels like a teenager at once. she understands what it's like to not be known, for people who are supposed to know her to decide she isn't worth continuing on that path. cassian may not mean it, but it triggers something long buried in her and she stares at him with heartbreak that isn't meant for him so much as others that do not exist in this world and do not exist for the patron of the craft. ]
[ it's an ache she knows even if she can't remember why, and she doesn't want to remember it, not when it already hurts like this on the surface. ]
[ he makes to grab her and she reacts without thinking; annabeth grabs him in turn and moves quickly to throw him off the dock, into the water. ]