I paused, my attention falling on a scrap of red fabric as it fluttered in a breeze I hadn’t even noticed, a piece of it lifting and tumbling over the toe of my boot. My throat thickened as I recognised the expensive lace of the dress I’d worn to marry the man who now lay dead out on that battlefield. The man who I had stolen back from the stars only to have them spit in my face as they tore him away again so much more permanently than before. Married and widowed in the same day.
Its too much agonh
