I did not age.
That was the thing the dark did. The dark I'd taken into the bond, the dark I'd become the bridge for, the dark that was the half the Moon had lost and I'd helped return. The dark preserved me. Not the youth. Not the body. The stillness. The dark was the thing that didn't move, didn't change, didn't age, didn't end. And I'd taken the dark, and the dark had taken me, and the taking was the keeping, and the keeping was the stillness, and the stillness was the thing I was.
And the stillness was the thing that watched.
I watched Selene and Kael age. That was the thing the one who stays did. The one who stays watched the ones who go. And the going was the aging, and the aging was the living, and the living was the thing the stillness couldn't do. And the couldn't was not the f
