Northstar Vale She rides

The widow hadn't gotten over it. She couldn't. She simply couldn't live without Burke, simply didn't have the strength on her own to care for herself nor the ones around her anymore. Hollow. Empty. Like a deflated balloon, a hole so big that it could never be fixed again. She'd never fly again.

She thought of ending her life, join her mother and her dear mate in the stars, but then who would look up above and see them smiling down on the earth as they followed their loved ones. Burke didn't want her sad. She knew that. But god damn it, why did he have to go then?!