She Turned On the Lights

I never handed over a thing.

And I put legal protections in place to make certain no personal relationship could ever endanger it again.

People sometimes ask why I didn’t just run, that first night, once I knew.

And whenever I think of Yvaine on that plastic stool in the dark, eating cold rice while a rich family dined upstairs, I know the answer.

I had an exit.

She didn’t.