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Luminance of Innocence
Brightness before the first invoice.
Innocence is not armor. It is light before the body learns what people charge for access.
Naive is not insult here. It is the brief season when touch still meant comfort and not negotiation.
Protect it if you can. Not because it lasts — it doesn’t — but because the memory of unguarded warmth teaches the heart what to miss accurately.
Eternity is declined. Luminance is enough.
The light dims. You keep the receipt.
JV · Dark Heart Labs