Pairing: Zoé/Artemis
A.N: Companion piece to An Immortal's Burden and My Gilded Cage. Title taken from the song Stars by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.
Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable- Cassandra Clare
In the years following Zoé's death I have done many things. Since her death, I have fought two wars, and gained another lieutenant. Sometimes, it almost seems that I have forgotten her.
But when I look up at the stars, I can see my forever, and I am reminded of her. Her eyes as black as night, her smile, her soothing voice, when I look up at the stars I am plagued by memories, memories of hunts and adventures and campfires, of tears and stolen kisses and nights spent snuggled into on another. I can't look at the stars anymore without the weight of everything that I have lost slamming into me, worse than holding the sky. I cannot even find solace in the stars, the infinite stars who were once sympathetic to my plight. I have forever to learn how to bear this and it honestly makes it worse. There is no escape from this pain, and I will simply have to move on, no matter how badly I want to join her in death.