Literature
Today
His biggest fear is that one day, her eyes will be dull.
Yes, without him there is nothing; not in the typical romantic sense, not in the cliché romance novels that his older sister Edna used to read secretly. It was more in the without-him-she-didn't-exist-sense.
But Will ignores that, forgets that; if it's all a dream, if it's all in his head, then it's all for nothing anyway, and he cannot live with that.
So he struggles on, sneaking through the Sujerian desert beneath the big sky with a surly Ian at his side, and he thinks of everything that can go wrong.
They are trying to win, trying to finish a desperate, impossible quest.
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