May The Circle Be Unbroken [Justice]

"You idiot," she gasped affectionately. "Like I'd... let you leave me behind... again." Domari's labored breathing stilled beneath her, and Justice closed half-blinded eyes under a wave of grief, and relief. Even if she could have, she'd not have moved for fear of dislodging his stilled head from atop hers. She simply kept her eyes closed against the loss, and the pain as it built. And, for the first time in her life, Justice... surrendered. She let herself go, and as the pain receded she slipped into darkness, and stillness.


She stood, leaving her own crumpled and battered body behind to leap with a joyful shout after her best friend, cavorting with him through the moonlit plain before fading from sight.