Then she leaned against his neck so that he disappeared in all her hair, and she said: “Now you know that you don’t want to die either. You’re not allowed to, okay? If you die before I come back here, I’ll beat you to death!” “Come back here?” he teased. “Why would you come back here? Aren’t you going to live in a big house with someone ordinary?” “One day maybe we can be ordinary enough, you and me,” she whispered.

