The sun has set and the night has calmed the fuss and noise of the day. Somewhere in the countryside of Southern France, in a small village, an old woman sits on the porch of her small but cozy house and looks at the stars.
The stars are bright tonight.
She is old. It's hard to estimate her age, but it has to be around eighty. The people in the village like her but keep their distance; she has never been very fond of company.
No one knows where she came from almost twenty years ago, or why. No one knows and no one has ever asked her that or anything else relating to her past – there's something in her eyes which has warned them not to.
There are things better left untold.
She looks at the stars with her deep blue eyes. She has waited for so long… Every night she sits on the porch and waits.
Waits for him.
She knows he will come for her, just like she came to him decades ago. She knows they will be together again. Not in this reality or dimension, but what does that matter? They will be together, forever, and nothing can change that.
When, years and years ago, she searched for a place to settle down after her seemingly endless travelling around the world, she had only two criteria: she wanted to be in peace and she wanted to see the stars.
Now, in the place she has learnt to call a home, she has both.
And she knows she doesn't have to wait for long anymore. The decades of loneliness are coming to their end as she feels her time is running out. She doesn't detest life anymore like she used to but she is almost glad it will be over soon – nothing was the same after him. Though she eventually was able to turn the consuming pain as bittersweet memories, it didn't bring him back.
Carefully she rises from the chair and walks slowly inside with quiet steps. It's time to go to sleep… She is so tired.
As she lies in her bed, the night breeze coming from the window touches her skin in a way it never has before.
Only one has touched her in a way like that.
She closes her eyes and hears how the wind sighs softly outside.
…Clarice…
With a smile on her lips she lets go.
Tonight…
Their stars will be the same.