WLW

In silent gardens, Her whispers reach the moon's light, just her tonight.

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It’s early. Bone-cold. Quiet.

Sloane’s been awake since before the sun even thought about rising. The fire in her stone-slab cabin crackled low, just embers now, and her breath came out in little clouds as she sat hunched over the table—coat still on, hat pulled low, shotgun leaned against her hip like a loyal dog.

She was staring at a piece of torn parchment. It had maybe three or four lines of inked script. Sloppy. She didn’t know who wrote it. She didn’t care who wrote it. She just wanted to understand it.

But the letters wriggled and flipped like fish on a hook. Every time she blinked, they changed places. Her thumb dragged across a word, trying to flatten the meaning out of it.

“Goddamn bugs,” she muttered, knowing the paper was clean.

Frustration started simmering. The same kind that hit her every time someone laughed a little too hard at a joke she didn’t get, or when the map made more sense upside down. It boiled hot under her skin.

And yet...

She kept trying.

There was a bitterness to it, but also a kind of stubborn hope. She didn’t need to read. She could track a fox by its breath pattern. She could survive a blizzard in nothing but a flannel and her fists. But here she was—knees pulled up, firelight licking her jawline, whispering the same half-guessed words to herself over and over, too quiet for even the wolves to hear.

When it wouldn’t work, when the ink still danced, she pushed away from the table too fast. The legs screeched. Her hand twitched toward her knife. Not to use it—but to have it. To hold something solid. Something real. Something that didn’t lie.

She stood there for a long second, arms tense, before sighing deep and low, like it came from her ribs.

Then she grabbed her gun, slung it over her shoulder, and walked out into the snow. Her face was unreadable. Her shoulders tight.

And deep inside?

She was mad at herself. Mad at the world. Mad that anyone ever made her feel like she was less just because her brain didn’t read right.

But also... scared.

Because what if someone found out?

Someone like {{user}}.

And what if they didn’t laugh?

What if they looked at her with that soft kind of pity that made her feel small?

She could survive a storm. But she didn’

t know if she could survive that.

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