A weight lifted onto Nathan's shoulders, settled down into his gut at the same time, because there was one more that remembered, that knew, but that was also one more that he could fail. One more that everything could go so wrong for.
No. No, it would be right this time. For all the sacrifices, for all the loss, this time it would go right.
"We all had a hand in the ending," Nathan replied with a faint, sad smile. "You no more than others. The point of being here is not to rehash what once was, but to start again, to make it better. You followed him, followed her, and now is your chance to change how your story ends, too."