She tried, that night, to let go. She sat with Samuel in his apartment, the fire lit, the evening quiet around them, and she tried to imagine what Caleb was asking her to imagine. She tried to imagine staying here forever. She tried to imagine Thornhaven as a memory only—beautiful and distant, like the ocean she had visited on her first anniversary. She tried to imagine her life as a human life, an ordinary life, a life measured in decades rather than the centuries she might have lived in the V...