I never imagined she was sick.

I never imagined this.”

“Neither did I,” I said quietly.

“I walked away too, Arthur.

I told myself I was saving my own soul, and maybe I was, but I left Evelyn behind on the other side of that wall along with everything else.

We both did.

We were so busy being wounded by each other that none of us noticed our sister slipping away.” It would have been easy, in that moment, to fall into blame, his or mine, to relitigate the old war one more time.

We did not.