Author’s Note
This little story was originally intended to be a submission to the RoMMantic Reads online zine—but it quickly outgrew those length requirements! I do love it, though—I’ve always been more interested in the aftermath of the epic battle than in the battle itself: rebuilding, seeing where we go from here, exploring characters as they figure out who they might become after the big quest. Harth and Tris are still fairly young—though of course they’re not, given everything they’ve been through!—and they are, as Tris says, not the same people they were, when they were younger and avoiding responsibilities. But they’re finding, and building, happiness together.
This story probably owes a bit to Diane Duane’s The Door into Sunset, and the other usual suspects—Patricia A. McKillip,
