Author's Note: I wrote this late at night. I wish I'd had a chance to stick one of the recurrent symbols/images/themes in, but I didn't, and I'm not sure if anyone looks for them but me. So, yeah. If you do, that'd be really cool, and it'd be doubly cool if you told me.

Habit; 16

Sometimes, I wish I hadn't met him. Really, my entire existence would be better that way.

It's logical to wish that I had avoided that stupid Tree, that there hadn't been a Bet, that my sister was still alive, that I wasn't forced into the static hypocrisy of my present life.

If all of that is logical, why can't I see it? Logic is good, it's reasonable, it can be measured. It's important if one wishes to keep sane.

I must be crazy, then. Surely it's simple: he broke me and now I'm crazy.

If I blame him, I'm absolved.