"We should marry," he had said. She laughed because he sounded so serious.

He was worried that the war would destroy them, take him away. Or that she would leave him, if she learned that he was a part of the rebellion. Though he felt in her heart she believed as he did in the freedom he risked his life for, how could she forgive him for being a part of those who had killed her father, her brother, and carved out the heart of her mother and her.