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“We might even write it all down. You would like that I think. And why shouldn’t we, we have time.” Sobbing.

“Setting you free love.” Then I turned my head, hard and fast, three degrees to the left.
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“I thought despairingly, that love didn’t make cowards of us after all, it made heroes. And heroes usually didn’t survive, but I was no hero.”

“Not a single sound came from the woods. Not a creak, or a rustle, or a drawn breath. Oh Una, they were so clever, our children, bright as comets and just as fleeting.”

“If there was no hell waiting for us in the afterlife, I imagined that you would build one with your bare hands just for me.”

“They named him, but no, you asked for mercy. I will not make you remember his name.”
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“I have loved you since before I was born, I think. I have studied you, worshipped you, lost you, mourned you. I have weeped at your bier, and fought beneath your flag. I have killed you Una, over and over.” You voice dragged now like a dull blade, wetting itself against me. The tips of your thumbs pressed into my flesh. “This once please, let me save you.”

“If I serve anything, let it be that. If I die for anything, let it be you.”

“Did I consider refusing? Did I imagine crawling to your bier and l laying down beside you among the flowers, so that a thousand years from now they would find our bones so intermingled it would be impossible to tell which were mine and which were yours? And no one would care because no one would know our names. Of course.” 🚬🚬🚬