I must have looked confused. “What the hell are you talking about?”
She turned to face me; her dark eyes close to mine. “Give me one reason, Francis. Give me one reason why we shouldn’t just stay here, forever—you and I, alone. Give me one reason why we shouldn’t restore the lighthouse and defend it and kill anyone who comes close; why we shouldn’t go so far as to kill them first—just kill them where they sleep—and stop the threat before it even begins. Tell me now why they’re worth saving, and why we shouldn’t finish what they started,” She nodded briskly at the sky, “What they instigated with the Flashback but failed to complete. What can be completed still—”
And I kissed her, suddenly, completely—I’m still not sure why, maybe because I thought she was breaking down and that doing so w
