[also delurks]
What a way for your Muse to come back, Sara! This is powerful in its expression of the pain they're both feeling. Both of them have legitimate reasons for feeling it, too. And what I especially like about the ending is that
both of them compromise. Both of them give a little. It's not that one person has totally crumpled beneath the other's anger. They both acknowledge that they did things wrong, and they both let go of some of their anger so that they can listen.
You describe Clark's sense of defeat, of giving up on their relationship, so well that I can feel his utter despair as he floats up to the top of the elevator. And even though the revelation's very understated (which is A Good Thing), it's brilliant all the same.
Excellent work!
Wendy
[/lurks again]
