The darkness was memory.

“What a powerful feeling, love, able to withstand time and distance and disagree…”

“I was an afterthought, five thousand years later. A mistake, because Ciana was …”

“What I want." I slid my hands over him until cloth folded between my fingers. "…”

“maybe not insane, just stupid. "Eighteen. She moved us when I was still and inf…”