[It's a struggle to move the hand she has under his but she manages to interlace their fingers somehow. If she's going to lose her life now, at least she managed to see him one last time. This isn't how she wants to die though. She wanted to die old and surrounded by her children and grandchildren with him. She wanted to die after him so he wouldn't know the pain of loss.
Not like this.]
I didn't stop looking. Your mother told me...the ring. You shouldn't have.
[She can feel the life seeping out of her with every word even as she desperately clings to life, clings to him by curling her fingers around his hand.]
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Not like this.]
I didn't stop looking. Your mother told me...the ring. You shouldn't have.
[She can feel the life seeping out of her with every word even as she desperately clings to life, clings to him by curling her fingers around his hand.]