The Night the Word "Home" First Lit

Lunera · Jun 21, 2025

The steam from our two cups of tea
rose quietly toward the glass ceiling,
dissolved into the blue of Auralis,
and was gone.

We didn't say much.
But the safety of what went unsaid
rested gently on my shoulders.

"This world only came into being today,"
Yu said.

Something inside me —
a word I hadn't used before —
quietly caught fire.

Home.

Outside: silence.
But in this room,
two warm flames
were already living together.