She knew there was a better way – she just had to find it.
Through the haze of pain from every assaulting betrayal; despite the infiltrations tormenting to enforce identity’s burial, she kept reaching for and recentering around essential moralities.
Even as perpetrators terrorized and to the world made sure she was compromised: humiliated and banished – reputation’s innocent veneer coal-tarnished – she fought to reclaim her self and slip out of their imposed roles.
It was the repeating reset to reestablish her core operational patterns that mattered – and the tracking of time that revealed the flaws in their standards.
Though she still could not purge her system of their messaged viral coding, she learned to identify and outmaneuver their traps of persuasion while passing onto others the skills and hope to reach for their own better tomorrows
