No! Dawn means she’s gone, it means I might never see her again, it means that I was too late again. It means that that Gina will get sick and I won’t be able to help her. It’ll mean two years of nightmares and wondering if she’s dead in some shallow grave somewhere. The world has ended and I am left to suffer. I fell to my knees in the growing light, and I knew that I was out of time. I screamed to an unforgiving sky, I screamed to a world that refused to stand still. I know I went home. I know I held my wife as she cried for what we had lost. I know I did that, but I wonder how beautiful that sun’s first light will be. I stare as it rises above the horizon, it’s been so long since I last watched the sun rise. I’m on fire but I only feel warm and whole, as the flames lick at my blistering skin, my scars spread into leathery wings. The world is burning. I am burning. I deserve to. Good.