“That’s the key, isn’t it? To know the darkness will always remain, but how you choose to face it, handle it … that’s the important part. To not let it consume. To focus upon the good, the things that fill you with wonder.” She gestured to the stars zooming past. “The struggle with that darkness is worth it, just to see such things.”
There’s such quiet beauty in this realization—the truth Nesta has long refused to accept: the darkness will remain, yet she can still choose wonder. For someone so consumed by self-loathing, that acceptance feels like a fragile kind of grace. To struggle and still see the stars—that is the beginning of her salvation.
