He was my pillar of certainty when the rest of the world was crumbling, the man who had stood by me after I’d lost everything. He had been one of the few things in this world worth waking up for after I lost Clara, and it had nothing to do with Lionel’s Guardian bond, it was because Darius was a brother chosen for me by fate. He was one of the only good things in this forsaken world the stars had offered me, and now they’d taken him away without even offering me a chance to say goodbye.
