Ghosts

Nagisa remembered the first time, the twilight sea. She remembered Alexandra and herself - Miharu - memorizing each other's bodies, dyed in the dark colors of nightfall. That night, they were wed in nobody else's eyes but their own, but they were all who mattered. The deal was sealed with a kiss upon the other's knuckles; every vow that could have been made had been sealed in actions, in blood. This wasn't her memory.

Alex remembered the last time; the woods and snow, Miharu disappearing through the trees. Alex looked at Nagisa, and there was her beloved ghost. This wasn't her lover.