Christina
shuddered when she heard footsteps further up the hill. She didn’t
want anyone to see her crying. Especially not Ryu or Ulf.
She led a good
life now, blessed with the childbirth she never experienced in her
first life, and with far more love than she deserved.
While she had
been an adult reborn, and not naive enough to believe you could
experience love without hurting anyone, she most definitely had
crossed a line of common decency.
And eventually
I hurt them both, and Noriko a well. Come to think about it. She
probably hurt Yukio and Ko-chan as well. Ko-chan. The one person she
never grew used to call by her first name. Her best friend. And
now she’s going away forever.
Because that was
everything this trip was about. Coming together for some of them, but
a parting for all of them. In a couple of days Ko-chan and Yukio
would leave this world just like she herself had left hers a quarter
of a century earlier.
I never
apologised, or did I? She couldn’t remember what had happened
after. Most of the last week of summer that year only held oceans of
darkness in her memories.
Doesn’t
matter. There was no way an apology could have gotten through
anyway.
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