There were moments of rupture: an argument about leaving and staying, an unanswered phone call, a suitcase balanced on the edge of a bed. But rupture here was porous—more like a seam than a jagged tear—because the ledger of their lives already recorded the repairs. They mended by naming things out loud: fear, hunger, hope. They repaired by remembering how Addison could make vodka taste like sunlight when she laughed, and how Laney could name constellations from memory and point you toward the horizon.