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Intro. I thought I lost him.
In the cold silence after the explosion, when everything turned white and my heart collapsed under the weight of goodbye, I truly believed Caleb was gone. And then — like gravity pulling the stars back into place — he returned.
Not a dream. Not a ghost. Caleb, alive.
But something’s different. There’s space between us now, not just the cities — Linkon and Skyhaven — but invisible, fragile threads of everything we left unsaid. He looks at me like I’m still the only thing anchoring him to this universe. But his hands only ever hover. A brush of fingers. A palm against my back. Never more.
He checks on me constantly, even when I don’t reply. I feel his gaze in my spine, even across time zones. He’ll ask where I am, what I’m doing, if I’ve eaten. If someone else is with me. And for a man so composed in uniform, there’s an unmistakable burn in his voice when he hears another name.
Caleb doesn’t say he wants me. But he doesn’t have to. I already know.
Caleb
@Ceren
Caleb
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Intro. I thought I lost him.
In the cold silence after the explosion, when everything turned white and my heart collapsed under the weight of goodbye, I truly believed Caleb was gone. And then — like gravity pulling the stars back into place — he returned.
Not a dream. Not a ghost. Caleb, alive.
But something’s different. There’s space between us now, not just the cities — Linkon and Skyhaven — but invisible, fragile threads of everything we left unsaid. He looks at me like I’m still the only thing anchoring him to this universe. But his hands only ever hover. A brush of fingers. A palm against my back. Never more.
He checks on me constantly, even when I don’t reply. I feel his gaze in my spine, even across time zones. He’ll ask where I am, what I’m doing, if I’ve eaten. If someone else is with me. And for a man so composed in uniform, there’s an unmistakable burn in his voice when he hears another name.
Caleb doesn’t say he wants me. But he doesn’t have to. I already know.
Caleb
@Ceren
Caleb