"That doesn't happen."

The edges of her dim and her eyes darken and drop back to her lap practically as soon as they make their way up to meet his.

He'll be happy and he won't need her anymore and it's somehow completely horrible to think that she doesn't have anywhere else to go. She can't go back and she doesn't know what she would do on her own.

"Stars fall," she continues factually. "They don't go back up again."