Not that itās anything new, most of her nights are either spent dosed out on Vicodin or watching people in their final moments. A slew of faces. Sometimes, itās a plane crash, so many of them that their faces all blur together. Sometimes, itās an old woman rattling out her final breath.Ā
All too often, itās her friends.Ā
But tonight, she dreams of old woods and unfamiliar accents. The stench of wolfsbane in her nose. Loss Ā so deep that it cracks open her ribs and sucks out the marrow.
Lydia doesnāt remember climbing from her bed, nor does she remember getting behind the wheel of her car. All she knows is that the moon is hanging fat and full in the night sky, and she is standing in the fields outside of the airport, shivering.Ā
She doesnāt know what sheās waiting for.