It takes a million years for a star to die. A fraction of a second for its core to collapse. Hours for the shock wave to reach the surface. And then, months for it to brighten for the world to see, and years for it to fade away. We had fifteen years with Naomi, but it took seconds for the truck to swerve across the road and take her from us. The shock wave of her death gripped us and ripped us apart, slowly, like paper, and exposed the huge crack already in our foundation.
