Work Text:
“Why do you blame yourself?” The girl asks.
How does she answer that? How can she describe to someone who hasn’t even yet lived a single lifetime thousands of years spent together?
Explain the bloodshed of war, and the passions of peacetime. Millennia of laughter and tears.
Describe a feeling, a connection, unknown in the world before or since.
The love of her very long life. Her heart, shared in another’s body.
And the failure to keep her safe, to find her heart in the ocean.
Just you and me
Until the end.
“I lost a soldier,” Andy simply replies.