Amethyst | From The Commons
For Athena
She carried stones before she knew what walls were for
Weight that felt like a burden to bear, without a reason to bear it.
Until the reason built itself around her — room by room, stone by stone
Fragments of moments paving the path from nowhere to somewhere
And every somewhere looked like almost — tasted like the edge of home
Remembered; known, without knowing how. An echo, backwards through time
She followed it anyway — through twelve doors that opened...