Ash's POV
Today had been unexpectedly good.
I didn't know what to do with that.
Good days weren't something I had a lot of experience with, not real ones, not the kind that settled in your chest at the end of them and felt warm rather than just neutral. I had spent so long moving from one thing to the next, one task, one mission, one survival, that a day that was just…good, felt almost suspicious.
Opening up had felt strange. That was putting it mildly. I was not a person who shared things…I kept everything in its place, organised and contained and nowhere near the surface, and today I had cracked that open slightly in front of Rowan of all people and somehow the world hadn't ended.
It lingered. That was the strange part but not in a bad way. Just sitting there in my chest, unfamilia
