Her cold hand sought his, ugg boots on sale and he squeezed it gently. He could feel his heart beating in his chest. He was scared, and what scared him was the normality of the moment. He felt so comfortable with her at his side that he would have been willing to stand there forever.
     "I miss you," he admitted.
     "I'm here," she said.
     "That's when I miss you most. When you're here. When you aren't here, when you're just a ghost from the past or a dream ugg boots cheap sale from another life, it's easier then."
     She squeezed his fingers.
     "So," he asked. "How's death?"
     "Hard," she said. "It just keeps going."
     She rested her head on his shoulder, and it almost undid him. He said, "You want to walk for a bit?"
     "Sure." She smiled up at him, a nervous, crooked smile in a dead face.
     They walked out of the little graveyard, and made their way back down the road, toward the town, hand in cheap uggs online hand. "Where have you been?" she asked.
     "Here," he said. "Mostly."
     "Since Christmas," she said, "I kind of lost you. Sometimes I would know where you were, for a few hours, for a few days. You'd be all over. Then you'd fade away again."
     "I was in this town," he said. "Lakeside. It's a good little town."
     "Oh," she said.
     She no longer wore the blue suit in which she had been buried. Now she wore discount uggs for women several sweaters, a long, dark skirt, and high, burgundy boots. Shadow commented on them.
     Laura ducked her head. She smiled. "Aren't they great boots? I found them in this great shoe store in Chicago."
     "So what made you decide to come up from Chicago?"
     "Oh, I've not been in Chicago for a while, puppy. I was heading south. The cold was bothering me. You'd think I'd welcome it. But it's something to do with discount uggs for women being dead, I guess. You don't feel it as cold. You feel it as a sort of nothing, and when you're dead I guess the only thing that you're scared of is nothing. I was going to go to Texas. I planned to spend the winter in Galveston. I think I used to winter in Galveston, when I was a kid."