They stood for a brother keeping a promise to his dead sister.

They were the same people.

The only thing that changed was that they finally understood, and understanding, they became better than they had been ten minutes before.

I do not hold their laughter against them.

They did not know.

And the moment they knew, they stood.

Chapter 15 — The Figure in the Shadows

There was one more person there that night, though I did not know it until later.