[There’s still so much they haven’t learned about each other. They’re married. Nothing they could learn would change a single vow. It’s insanity, really; but what else are they here for?]

[Eren says he hasn’t left anything behind. Aubrey wonders about the unspoken anyone. But those names—those faces—were answer enough, weren’t they?]

[Aubrey doesn’t say anything for a while, as if distracted. She feels all too present. Maybe she put the drink down too early.

[But the quiet is unbearable in its own way.]

If I see anyone again, I’ll tell you. First chance I get.

[She’ll hold him a thousand times again, if she has to.]