The End

Why must everyone I love freeze to death in my arms? Why couldn’t I ever stop it? Why couldn’t I ever join them? And why, oh why, was it happening again? My heart stayed warm as his froze solid. 

I’d always hoped to die in his arms. I just imagined it would be eighty years from now after every dream of ours had come true. Last time he had been the one to save me. He had been the spring bursting through my long winter. But even the planet of eternal spring couldn’t save him now. In fact, it was killing him faster.