

It’ll be nice not having to worry about you at the same time.” I’m glad I’ll get to be with Caleb before…you know.

“But I think these are things we have to do separately.

“I don’t want you to have to bear Uriah’s family alone,” I say softly. “I just don’t want you to have to bear it alone.” “Obviously that is not what I think.” He touches his hands to my face and leans his forehead against mine. “What, you don’t think I can handle it?” I say, a little defensive. “It doesn’t feel right to leave you alone with something this huge.” “I don’t like that I can’t be with you tonight,” he says. I stand on the higher step in the atrium and he stands on the lower one, so we’re on the same plane. Maybe then we can find out if we do as well with the quiet moments as we have with the loud ones.įinally the time comes for Tobias to leave. We will reset the people in the compound, and work to rebuild this place together. But I can see a time on the horizon when that won’t need to happen anymore. Most of our time together has been spent running from one threat or another, or running toward one threat or another. It feels like something that normal people do-go on dates, talk about small things, laugh. Tobias takes me to the atrium near the hotel dormitory, and we spend some time there, talking and kissing and pointing out the strangest plants.
