But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance. - Sarah Dessen

He always did the leaving. But not this time. She kept walking, and did not look back.

So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtakes, blotting out the future, the landscape, the very sky, until there is no path left except that which leads through it, the only one that can ever get you home.