252 | first/last lines meme

[straightforwardly]

Since I've seen this going around recently...

Go through your last 5 fics and share the first and last line. Provide no context.

blood on her hands
It was impossible to go through war without seeing brutality.

“Together, then,” she said, and it was half-apology, half-promise.

A Gentle Sympathy
As the sun sank ever-lower into the sky, Auralee had to admit the facts: they definitely weren’t going to make it to the next town before nightfall.

For now, she was going to sleep, warmed by the closeness of the two people she loved best.

To Be Sung On the Water
The beach transformed in the fall.

And when she began the trek back home not long after, it was with a heart filled with the satisfaction of knowing that the world was filled with more wondrous things than most people believed—and the even sweeter sensation of having been given a second chance.

Peregrination
Lucina had known from the start that she could never stay.

Cloaked in memories of her mother, her father’s sword hanging from her hip, Lucina journeyed further into her new life.

Denouement
There were cherry blossoms in her sink, pink and delicate and sticky with saliva and bile.

Ten minutes, and then she would finally let go.

I always feel like my weakness is ending lines, and this has done nothing to dissuade me of that.