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− | I slept late on our first full day dirtside and woke to an empty bed with the sheets cold where Joshua had been. I rolled over and hugged his pillow and breathed in the scent of him, trying to recall Joshua holding me in the dark. Memory came, but faintly. Waking to find him gone had become all too familiar since we’d acquired | + | I slept late on our first full day dirtside and woke to an empty bed with the sheets cold where Joshua had been. I rolled over and hugged his pillow and breathed in the scent of him, trying to recall Joshua holding me in the dark. Memory came, but faintly. Waking to find him gone had become all too familiar since we’d acquired Equinox and repetition didn’t make it any easier to bear. Like a stubborn wound that refused to heal, the disappointment of waking alone only made the scab over the wound grow thicker. I tried not to dwell on what would happen when I woke up and found the wound gone with nothing but the scab in its place.<br><br> |
''Quit marinating. Get up''.<br><br> | ''Quit marinating. Get up''.<br><br> |