Characters who have lost

susanwrites was transferring a bunch of writing prompts to LiveJournal, where I read her blog.  One of the prompts caught my eye: "Write about something you've lost."

It's a great prompt.  Not that I need a writing prompt right now, given that I have projects underway and other project ideas knocking around in my head.  But it made me realize that the main character in The Secret Year has lost something, in a big way.  And the main character in my WIP #1 has lost something important too.  Also th