"I was mostly focused on the fact that she needs glasses so everything farther than five feet was blurry." But thinking back, he could feel it. He'd felt it for Ciara, that and the fear of losing her when her body had nearly died.

"But I think I could, or maybe I just knew the hole was gone." It felt like that now, he was less aware of the ability to love and feel passion than he was of the realization that the emptiness had been filled.