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“When my sand runs out,” I say, holding his gaze in the dark, those fathomless hollows, “and you come for me… I think I’ll smile. I think it will feel like coming home.” My hand shifts over his heartstrings, feeling their steady pulse. “Like settling into the place where I belonged all along. With Death.”

“I have longed for you…” he whispers gently, “longer than I had a name for longing. My own wife. My own companion.”