Christina left the barbecue behind her . She needed some time on her own and climbed up the small hill she had visited earlier that evening .

The sun was finally setting . 'Half past ten already? Yukio will go bonkers . ' For some reason that thought was hilarious and she laughed into the summer evening .

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With the sun setting temperature dropped rapidly . It wasn't like j.a.pan where summer nights were warm, even though you couldn't trust June at all . A lot like April in Sweden with the weather G.o.ds playing the lottery most every day .

A clean slab of weather-beaten stone made do as a bench, and she stared across the sea . Seeing everyone back together like this brought a lot of memories to her . Some good and some not so good .

Right now she mulled over some of the latter . What she had done, and how those deeds eventually found her here a quarter of a century later, because there was a connection between what she had done as a teenager and where she ended up as an adult .

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Christina pulled her shawl tighter around her . A lingering wind brought salt and sea to her nose, but she couldn't feel as childishly nostalgic as she had done earlier . Because of what had happened back then .

Some had been accidents, but some had been poor and selfish choices from her part, and those haunted her still . She had paid for them in full, but redemption was still an open question .

Did she want them undone? Yes, but she had already been given a second chance at life, so she had no right to complain .

Still, what if?