Then- Opal The early morning was chilly. The early morning fog was crawling along the fields like ghostly fingers. It felt strange. Not because I wasn’t used to being up early. I was . No it was something else. Some sense of foreboding that I couldn’t quite shake off. Like this was the end of something. Or maybe the start of something. Either way it was scary. Not in a terror , ice in my veins type of way, no it was something softer than that. A cool gripping of my heart, that left it beating a little to fast. What the future held I didn’t know but I was now on a path that I couldn’t get out of. And deep down I knew my life would never be the same again. Still I was happy to be going away for a few weeks with my love. How Wren had managed to get permission I didn’t know. But I was g

