It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it be so for others.

¨DAnne McCaffrey

"It's been a long time, brother," Grigori said.

"It has indeed," Mikhail replied. A hundred things he'd longed to say simply faded. He pulled his elder brother into a fierce hug. Two hundred years had passed since he'd seen Grigori, and in that embrace he felt every single day fade away.

"Now that you have ...