Love And Light In The Last of Places

[KIA]

That night, Rukiya didn't sleep. She had tossed and turned one too many times but she was plagued with the thought of how she would explain to Hawi why she had done what she had done back then. 

It was meant to be a sacrifice but with the pain she had felt from Hawi earlier, Rukiya knew that her sacrifice had only cost Hawi more than it had saved her. It was the kind that had ruined the life it had been meant to ease, and she wondered what Hawi thought of that. 

For years she had been alone to think of what had happened and Ruru knew that Hawi still hadn't found the answer to that. 

Hell, how could she, when Rukiya herself was still reeling with the after-effects of a deal she had made, a deal that had made her Hawi's life horrible instead of making her life better?