This Is How You Lose the Time War

by Amal El-Mohtar

(Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.)

But when I think of you, I want to be alone together. I want to strive against and for. I want to live in contact. I want to be a context for you, and you for me. I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means together.