I thought I was done crying. I'm holding him against me. I know this isn't going to last. But he means it now, he does. "I'm so tired, Micah."

"It's alright, love. It's alright." He must be so tired. It's been so long. All those thousands of years. "I'm here, I've got you." Saying the stupid useless things that lovers say. "You can rest, you can rest if you want to." I did, in the dark, after I died. "I'll be here."