"Toward the Lush Wilderness, Parting Ways Too Often"

#0123. We interlude in lush spaces. Athena brought me and I wanted her hand but I settled for the eyes in the back of her head. We wandered through the trails and stumbled across the water and I wondered aloud if she thought of me in her lonely city on the Moon. She said she did, but I am always worried I'm being patronized. The scars burned into me. I dissolved into the water while she watched. I am not ok, I told her. She knew, but what could she do about it anyways?"