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I immediately leapt up to greet her before deciding it was better for me to remain sitting.
I sat back down and waited.
The footsteps came… and then went, continuing on down the hall.
I almost melted into the chair.
I’m not sure I can do this.
I know it’s what I need to do but…
I shook my head and wiped my palms on my pants.
I felt that familiar glow over my shoulder and when I turned to look at it, I peered in the darkness and saw my beloved Jjora smiling up at me.
In my visions of her, she wasalwayssmiling.
Sometimes, when I relived that terrible moment at the very end when I had last seen her alive, I imagined her smiling too.
In fact, shehadsmiled, but it was a situation no one else in the world would have managed.
She had been brave right up to the very end.
Happy and upbeat.
Even as I failed her.
I shook my head, losing confidence.
Ican’tdo this.
I can’t meet another female.
Not yet.
It had been almost six years and yet it still felt like yesterday.
I wasn’t ready for this, I can’t—
I was so distracted, I hadn’t heard the footsteps approaching.
They stopped on the other side of the door.
The room was so dark the hallway lights sent long fingers of yellow spilling across the floor.
I was already too late.
She’s here…
I opened my mouth to speak but no words came out.
She knocked before immediately opening the door.
She entered, her form silhouetted in black.
I couldn’t make out her features.
She was turned at an angle, casting deep shadows across her face.
