Grief squeezed at her eggshell heart like it might break into a thousand pieces, its contents running like broken promises... into the hollow places his love used to fill." [Maggie is standing alone in the darkness beside Kevin's flower covered grave, crying softly. She looks up and sees the stranger approaching her] "How could she know this pain would end? That love, unlike matter or energy, was in endless supply in the universe... A germ which grows from nothingness which cannot be eradicated even from the darkest of hearts. If she had known this — and who could say she would believe it? — she would not have chanced to remain at his sad grave until such an hour, so that she might not have to learn the second truth before the first; that to have love was to carry a vessel that could be lost or stolen... or worse, spilled blood-red on the ground. And that love was not immutable, it could become hate as day becomes night, as life becomes death.