There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.

“Raven jerks and stiffens. For a second, I think she is only surprised: Her mout…”

“Once Mo had closed the gates, he returned to his little stone hut, and his half…”

“Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my he…”

“In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefit…”