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LVIII. The Husband
Memories and feelings after death should be illegal, a proper consolation to the dead, away from the pain and terror they or should I say ‘we’ have to go through while dying. I am not a masochist, trying to find my place in the living world when I know I'm no more than just a ghost hanging around them. While the idea was good and dandy, I'm still stuck, lying on my grave, relieving everything that had happened to me.
I remember Gus as he lay unmoving, blood pooling from the back of his head. The terror and pain as I was struck from behind.
It doesn't make sense and above all, I died without telling Killiad that I love him and that I was never mad at him. I'm mad at myself for being so shallow, only thinking for myself and what I feel.
“Elle? Are you awake?” Came a rough, gasping voice on my right.
“Gus?” I called unsurely.
There were groaned and shuffling sounds before he talked again. “Hey, c
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