Sublime

This is an outlandish notion only if you don’t know how a person can destroy you by the simple act of disappearing.

She felt it in the way she’d been raised, as though two separate lines streamed into her, never having crossed, so that she herself was two unmixed people.

colluded

hallowed

Now Lina gets these pains, and she believes in her clearer moments that the pains are the heartaches of the past, of being lonely for eleven years. Of being raped. Of being lonely her whole life.

looted

abomination