The empty night sky was crowded with a plethora of stars, a soft breeze accompanying it that made it all feel just a bit more lonely.

“It ever get any easier?” Sadie asked, her words slipping into a sense of silence as she awaited the response she was sure she did not want. You had lost your wife, the same as she had lost her husband, and you were aware that she felt a kinship with you.

She’d been cold after she was first taken in, a woman desperate for a justice she could not easily get.