481 Epilogue - Part 2 (Lhars & Kyelle)

~ LHARS ~

No one's going to die in twenty minutes.

Lhars went very still, and Kyelle, kissing his neck, took a few seconds to catch up. When she did, she let her head drop back and looked at him, worried.

"What? What's wrong?"

Swallowing the sudden lump in his throat, he reached up to comb back a strand of hair that he'd dislodged from her braid, being too rough when he kissed her. He pushed it behind her ear.

"I just… I just realized that we don't have to measure our lives that way anymore," he croaked. "And I'm so grateful."

Kyelle searched his eyes. "What do you mean?"

"No one's going to die in the next twenty minutes, Kyelle. Probably not to day. Probably not this week. We've lived our whole lives waiting for death to walk in and point a gun in our faces and now… it's not. Kyelle… we're not waiting to die anymore. We're living."