He'll never be able to repay her for the feeling of her hand in his. How could he? He focuses on it, lets that burned-in sight of home fade and give way to memories of here. The two of them, talking at pride and the medieval realm and up on the sports deck, dinners with Pops and Ava, their wedding, that afternoon in the garden with Helena, Dimitri calling him beautiful. His life, as Okie.

"It's been just over a year, I think. I don't remember the day. I never got to tell 'em I regretted leavin'."