“I like you,” he says, contradicting her. They don’t have to inherit each other’s wars and dislikes. They don’t have to hate each other because of what passed between their fathers, or their grandfathers. The only thing they can be certain of is today, right now, and that they love each other.

“Is it better, here, to have allies, or to fight each other over things that won’t matter again until we leave, that may not matter even then?