"I should have looked. Maybe one day I will learn." She opened her eyes again, looking up at him with a gaze that shone both literally and figuratively -- the former a bit watery, as she tried to hold back tears. "But I feel like it has been a century and more since I saw you!"

Not because of his physical differences, but because of everything that had been through. The two of them that had played this past while, that had toured, and done such horrible things -- hadn't been them.

"And I am so glad to see you again..."