Ab

After birth, before death, then after that. Raodra named them as such, the three steps. Yet the first had already faltered, split into two paths and failed to move upon either. Ab named herself, Burrow and Ache, the eldest fails to live the life paved for her. We are so lucky that there was another, Burrow breaks beneath her mother's gentle hands. Mouth forever agar as it dangles dead and crooked agains her throat. They deviated then, from that moment forward there were two. Ache was born to both a life and agony that were not her own.