She shook to her feet but fell back to the ground. Quintz hurried to her and lifted her back up.
“Come on, Eilee. It was just the blaggovite. Come on.”
“It wasn’tjustthat thing. It was all real,” she said, crying the way she should have cried for Trey. Bawling the way she never had allowed herself to once upon a time.
“Why must we keep on living?” she wailed before wrapping her arms around Quintz and pulling him close. She needed someone—anyone. She needed to be soothed so desperately. “Why did he leave me?”
He clung to her. “Oh, Eilee,” he said. “I know your plight. Eternity is such a very long time to be alone.”
She knew the truth of it.
No one could soothe that pain. Of that, she was sure.
But like with so many other times in her life, she had to keep going in spite of her pain…in spite of her madness even.
