KIRA

Day five arrived the way days arrived before things you couldn't take back. Quietly, without ceremony, the light coming through the window the same as any other morning and the world outside unchanged and everything inside already different.

I lay awake for a while before getting up. Dante was still asleep beside me, which was rare enough that I didn't disturb it, just lay in the grey morning light and listened to him breathe and thought about nothing specific, which was a skill I'd been ...