He had tried to be good about waiting. Really he had. He'd tried being positive, staying busy, distracting himself with fuck-all. But he was so tired of it by now. And he just... "I just miss her. So much I feel broken," he admitted, a husky whisper. "Everything I've ever done in my life, has been with her. For her. Twinnies against the whole world."

Some of the things he'd done-

"Would you... Tell me about them?" Vax's eyes gleamed with a sheen of wetness as he looked up at her, intently. "Your Freya and Frederick. What are they like?"