Chapter 50: Dancing human

Aurora wanted to smile at him, run into his arms, but this moment was so eerily similar to the time she'd waited for her parents to be sorry for selling them, to come and get her. Similar and so different in all the ways that mattered. Her blood danced through her veins, making her light headed. He came for her.

"You came."

She had a place where she belonged, and she believed it, trusted it in the deepest reaches of the soul he'd tried so hard to shake loose. She didn't have to punish herself anymore. She could grab this happiness.

"I will always come for you."

He stepped toward her, and she held up a hand. He stopped, his eyes narrowed. She knew that look. He was thinking of grabbing her and stepping through the inter-dimensional barrier with her. Instead of alarm, that feeling of belonging wrapped her in reassurance, like a mother carefully wrapped a new born in the softest blanket she could find.