Finis
He stares down at her lifeless face, and the tumult of battle, the many-voiced shrieks and the hissing of lethal curses die away to dull silence.
A second before they were fighting back to back, and while he ducked under a ray of green light, she fell behind him without a sound. He spins around and finds her lying at his feet.
No. No.
He has no voice left to mourn aloud. It is his heart that screams her name, and when the next curse finally hits, he welcomes the end of this unbearable loss with a smile of relief.