He had not expected that answer and could smell her tears before they fell.
She scrubbed fiercely at her eyes when they released, poking harder than necessary at the fire as she did. "No one else will understand. They can't. It's all too much and too terrible. They've never seen what we have, and I don't think I could really explain it."
He understood.
Her breath shuddered as she tried to reclaim control, and she shrugged. "You're the only one who gets it." And then quietly, "I don't want to leave you."
And that he understood too.
Only too well.
