So very sweetly bitter! Beautiful word-smithing on this one. You've summed up the entire tragedy of their lives and loves in just a few sentences. So very sad and beautiful at once! Great work!

Can I just say how much I love you right now? *squee* This is just beautiful! :)

Ow. This is brilliant, and evocative, and it *hurts*. Great work!

This is the single, most succinctly written tragedy I have had the luck to read on ff.net. It *hurts* with every sentence. You built the suspense, and then...the reality's terribly cruel.