Charlie shakes her head. "I thought something might have, for a while. I still don't know. He just ... stopped showing up, at Milliways. Coming up on five years, now."

She shoves her hands in her pockets, looking out at the horizon again. "There was this little clay statue thing he gave me, when we started dating. A kouros, he called it. It let us talk to each other, even when he was in his world and I was here. And -- it got destroyed, over here."