A/N: Written for the Drabble Prompts Challenge on the AMF, #027 – pain.

Does it Hurt to Die Again?

He thought about
whether it hurt to die again
in those days

That followed the end of that year's Calamity
and his time with her…Aunt Reiko
whom he'd thought of more like a mother
than an aunt.

He'd forgotten it now, like the others:
that extra time they'd shared
together

But still he knew she was
the Extra one that year.