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When Ava finally gets her body back, she would love nothing more than to explore it. Find new parts of her own self, sensations she never knew existed.
Turns out she’s a little busy having superpowers (???) and not being dead (???) to immediately figure some shit out.
But moments present themselves. No. Ava takes moments. Forcefully.
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Five times Ava touches herself and one time Beatrice does.
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Unbound for a second, Beatrice lifts her hand back up. There’s no dirt, no excuse, but she palms Ava’s face again, just to feel it, just for that special close lipped smile that graces Ava’s face again, just for her to sigh.
She removes it quickly—not quickly enough, too quickly—catching Ava’s eyes when they open again.
“Now,” Beatrice says, voice soft and serious. “Let’s try again.”
Ava nods, the halo glows, her feet leave the ground, and she doubles her time.
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Beatrice realizes that her touch helps Ava with her training, and, well, things escalate.
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19 Apr 2026
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“You’re too pretty to be a nun,” she—the patient, the charming patient, Ava Silva, 19, no family, paralyzed from the neck down—tells Beatrice when she walks into the room.
Beatrice doesn't know what to say to that. She doesn’t spend much time looking at herself except to smooth out her hair, to make sure there are no stray pieces of lint on her shirt. She definitely hasn’t thought about the word pretty in relation to herself.
“I’m not,” she tells Ava directly.
“Not pretty or not a nun?"
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As the tea steeps, Beatrice sees the steam shift - like a breeze, like a curious sniff. Beatrice pours out two cups but the second stays on the counter (for the best since, just this week alone, Beatrice has had to replace a total of three teacups). She tries not to think too hard about it, turns away slightly so it’s just out of her line of sight. Though, she doesn’t know which is easier to swallow: the sight of the tea that Ava still cannot drink or the emptiness that greets her whenever she turns her head, the knowledge that Ava is back but not here. Not completely, not yet.
or: on touch and waiting and wanting
or or: Ava comes back invisible
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- Part 7 of here, after
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19 Apr 2026
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Rising up out of the darkness, Ava hears the murmured and disparate voices of a vast crowd, too many to hear all at once, but she can pick out words like 'God' and 'please' and 'hope'. It is a mass of whispered and screamed and chanted prayers, but she is only searching for a single voice, one she knows she could recognise anywhere.
“Ava,” Beatrice says, "I need you to come home. Please."
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When Ava is trapped in the other realm, it is Beatrice's voice that calls her home.
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