I Have Forgotten

***Ophelia*** After such chaos, there can only be stillness. Exhausted, every part of me entirely spent over the most agonising and intense experience of my life, I am dimly aware that I am floating face down in the spring. But, I can't even twitch a muscle. It all still feels on fire. Raw. Broken and rehealed in multiple ways, my body had been violently torn apart, only to effortlessly and neatly knit back together. I was not the same. I am not afraid. I may be face down in water, unable to move, but I am not alone, and I never would be again. I have her now—this fierce, wordless presence that is beginning to stir within me. And I have him. "Ophelia!" The water stirs just before Ares’ strong hands close around me. Panic colours his voice as he turns me, lifting me swiftly yet w