Challenge: black

Commiserations On Your Wedding Day

The bride is dressed in black, and the groom is not the man she married.

"I'm so sorry, my dear," he murmurs as they approached the registrar, as though it's not his fault that people try to kill him, and, occasionally, her.

She wishes that they did not succeed quite so often.

The witnesses are strangers; they see nothing peculiar here. She finds the vague boredom of their expressions a comfort when the man beside her is whispering plans of galactic adventure in her ear.

Still, she insists on this ceremony, her only indulgence of normality in an extraordinary existence.