C11 ELEVEN

A Soul of Lead

ROSE

I have a soul of lead

So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Dear Diary,

Our dearest friends in life often arrive in our darkest moments, and where once we were alone, then we are two.

Ocean had found me through tragedy, when my dark gift first burned through me and into another.

When once again tragedy struck