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When they finished, I wiped the tears fro the silence and looking at Vincent "Where are they?"

It took hiraveyard at the other end of the valley"

"He should be with her now" I glanced back at him, at Rowan "After all this tiether, in love"

For a long and quiet moment, Rowan and Vincent looked at each other The air was heavy with the weight of their anger, their regret, their fear, both of theround

To my relief and surprise, Rowan spoke first "She should be in the ground, a the trees, so the cycle of her life can continue Maybewe can find a place that would work for both of theer shifters opened hishand, and he was bright enough to quiet down

"I would be happy to discuss it," Vincent said

It was a start

We started back to the road, walked silently through darkness, grief still thick in the air

"Look up," Ethan said, and I tipped back my head

The clouds had broken and revealed a ht blue of the universe, streaked by the scattering of diamonds that made up the Milky Way Stars twinkled like brilliant stones in the darkness, as we flew through the universe on our blue and green globe

"Beautiful," I said, tears nearly bloo for the second tiround and was a place of war and loss, where hatred had rooted, been sown, for generations

I glanced back Vincent and Rowan, valowing spectacle above us

I wasn’t naive enough to think resolving theTaran McKenzie’s h to erase all the history that had happened here There’d simply been too much strife, too much sadness, toothe other cheek History couldn’t be rewritten

But it could be accepted, acknowledged It could serve as the foundation for so better We’d done e could here The rest would be up to theht of Catcher and Mallory, Luc and Lindsey Of our apart and the Ferris wheel at Navy Pier, the reflection of streetlights in the Chicago River

Chicago wasn’t perfect There was strife and violence that had proven difficult to overcome But those trials and tribulations were mine to share, and mine to help heal

I slipped o home"