She entered her email: moth.wing@shadowmail.com . A joke. Moths were clumsy, drawn to flames they couldn’t survive. Fitting.
She typed: hotaru
Not Hotaru with a capital H. Just hotaru . Firefly. enter your username, email and password to register: hotaru
Her stomach dropped. A ridiculous, irrational pang of loss. Of course it was taken. There were thirty-seven million people in this metropolis. Someone else’s grandmother had called them a firefly. Someone else was clutching at the same frayed thread. She entered her email: moth
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