"How long for you?" she asked.

The ravages of time were, ironically, more apparent on Diana. Not because her body had changed all that much. It couldn't. But her carriage. The way she stood. Even how little jewelry she was wearing, all of it was testimony to the ordeal she'd been through.

And the truly ridiculous thing about it was that it hadn't been all that long.

"About six months, for me."