[SE] the sound of all things good breaking

NOE

So it's gonna be forever
Or it's gonna go down in flames

Regardless of the how or why of it, Noe couldn't even deign to answer the thought that Sohalia might have been removed from the city against her will. After all, wasn't it for the better that the Family had come along? Hadn't they made everything better?

Noe clenched her jaw. "Of course you matter, you - you -" But Koa wasn't done; as the girl bit back hurtful words, he continued to rant at her about the so-called monsters. And while she might have argued that she wasn't sick - and, in fact, had plenty of Void friends to prove that they weren't as terrible as Koa seemed to think - his sudden stillness gave her pause. They'd fought before, as all siblings do, but never had he seemed so entirely wrathful, as though he might shake her in an attempt to rid her of the infection that he seemed to think she had.

But that didn't mean she was going to lay down and take it. She stuck her chin out mulishly. "I. Went. To. Starfall," she spat right back at him, bristling. "And it's actually beautiful, if you'd get your stubborn head out of your ass and give it a chance!"

You can tell me when it's over
If the high was worth the pain