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to find a way off the planet by just sitting here. When she was feeling better, we could venture off to find help—if there was help, but we needed to stay a few nights for Akacia to rest. Her body might be healed on the outside, but she was raw on the inside. My mind wandered a lot in the silence. I wondered how she healed. She wasn’t an AI. She bled. Were all of her people like that? Was she special? I thought about if it really mattered. Did it change the way I felt about her?

Not one bit.

Days and nights continued. Some nights Akacia cried and I held her. Some nights she was calm. Some nights she didn’t sleep at all.

She still didn’t talk. She was healing. I gave her the time. I said things here or there, but mostly just kept to myself and watched her.

Just before sunset, Akacia was staring at the stream, watching the water. I could tell by the way her body shook, even from behind, that she was crying. I sat next to her and put my arm around her shoulders, hoping to comfort her.

She shoved me away. Her eyes were full of fear. I held my hands up apologetically. She shook her head and jumped up. I followed. She was breaking down. Losing it. It had finally gotten to be too much. She took a swing, hitting me under my eye. I could have stopped it, but I didn’t. I deserved it. She cried out and swung at me again. Her fist connected with my lip.

She waited. Waited for me to fight back.

I shook my head. My own hot tears slid down my cheeks. I wouldn’t fight her.

She threw herself at me, pounding my chest with her fists. She cried out and started to collapse.

I grabbed her shoulders, steadying her, and easing her to the ground.

“I’ve got you.”

She let me hold her while she cried. I ran my fingers through her hair and hummed. How I wished I could go back and change things. When she fell asleep, I carried her back to camp and lay next to her. I cherished every second because I never knew from one moment to the next if she was going to let me near her again. During the night, she let me hold her. In the daytime, the anger returned. Touching was off limits. I started to stand and go to other side of the fire where I could sleep, she roused and her hand searched for mine. I took it and she interlaced her fingers with mine. It was a simple gesture, one that made me warm and hopeful.

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