[He doesn't deserve her. But he can't bring himself to flinch away, when she reaches out to him.
The hole they're standing in comes up to just below his knee, at its deepest, and he sits down on the edge of the grave, leaning forward on his elbows. He owes her an explanation - he denied it to her before, when he was too exhausted to tell her, but... One of the few who knew is lying beneath the mounded earth next to them.]
...I learned what happened. In the years I was missing.
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The hole they're standing in comes up to just below his knee, at its deepest, and he sits down on the edge of the grave, leaning forward on his elbows. He owes her an explanation - he denied it to her before, when he was too exhausted to tell her, but... One of the few who knew is lying beneath the mounded earth next to them.]
...I learned what happened. In the years I was missing.