And there had been no other time to mourn, between Haven and Miranda and Jethro. He realizes, acutely, that he hasn't mourned, not properly; so much tumbled and kept tumbling and is still tumbling on top of him that he's never stopped, and breathed, and fully understood.
It's harder to leave that stage of denial when the dead can walk in Milliways, or he can touch his wife again after hearing the noise of wings.
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He rubs a thumb over his life line.
"I didn't."
And there had been no other time to mourn, between Haven and Miranda and Jethro. He realizes, acutely, that he hasn't mourned, not properly; so much tumbled and kept tumbling and is still tumbling on top of him that he's never stopped, and breathed, and fully understood.
It's harder to leave that stage of denial when the dead can walk in Milliways, or he can touch his wife again after hearing the noise of wings.