Epilogue“Tell me again!” she whispered. It was obvious now that speaking was becoming more of an effort. Her small, thin, frail body was practically swallowed up by the bed they'd shared for so many years. Painstakingly, he had pulled the blanket up and tucked it under her chin, and if anyone were to look at her from above she'd resemble a disembodied head resting on a pillow.
He lay on his side watching as her chest rose and sank, and it reminded him of when he used to wake almost every night and lie just as he was now watching her sleep and breathe. It still amazed him now, even to this very day, that they had finally lived out their lives together, as it was meant to be.
It turned out Mary and Thomas weren't the first bodies they'd inhabited, in fact there were others before that – ce
