What they had was everything. There was no saving what they had. It had been incinerated along with everything else. They had spent three and a half years circling toward each other inside a walled garden. Outside, the world was burning down. Now the fire had come to them. Where had they thought this path would lead, when they’d set off? Was it foolishness or something worse that had brought them to this point so wholly unprepared? But now they were here, and she had no more options than McGrady had when he’d broken
