It should have been me.

I knew when we started this quest someone would die before the end of it.

And it should have been me.

Yet at the same time I asked her to be my wife and bear my children.

It was only recently that I held hope that we'd all make it through.

I was wrong.

I watched her die, and with her last breath she told me of her undying devotion.

It should have been me.