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mutatismutandisSummary: Jean never said no.
You never told me no. That's what I remember about you and what I won't forget.
"Come on out," I said, when your parents brought me a shell of a girl. "It's safe, now."
My voice was calm, commanding. Your sea-green eyes, too old for any child, met mine and recognised me.
"Yes," you said, the first time you had spoken in weeks, and your mother cried with joy.
A dark and evocative take on the relationship between Xavier and Jean, and at what she might have been looking for when she walked out of that jet.
The Lady of Alkali Lake
You never told me no. That's what I remember about you and what I won't forget.
"Come on out," I said, when your parents brought me a shell of a girl. "It's safe, now."
My voice was calm, commanding. Your sea-green eyes, too old for any child, met mine and recognised me.
"Yes," you said, the first time you had spoken in weeks, and your mother cried with joy.
A dark and evocative take on the relationship between Xavier and Jean, and at what she might have been looking for when she walked out of that jet.
The Lady of Alkali Lake
