When the ceiling collapsed onto her and the building wreathed in flames, her arms took the impact as she covered herself with them.

  "I will give her shoulders that can hold the Earth from the Sky."

  Sizzling, humming. Azure lasers cutting through plaques of alloyed steel.

  The fire had burnt through her skin, seeping into her weakest parts.

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  "I will make it so she can breathe in the heat of a star."

  Prayers only could tell if she'd ever wake. And if she did, how long would she last?

  "And I will ensure..."

  Thick metal shutters folded into the walls and ground. Behind layers of quartz and glass, it stood.

  "... That you live to see..."

  His magnum opus.

  The perfected dream of mankind's fusion plant.

  "Up until the last atom decays, and dies the final star."

  The miniature reactor was assembled, and it softly hummed to life. Cradled against his chest, pulsating, as if beating. Soon to become his beloved wife's heart.