The biker who broke fate
Marta was eighty-one now, smaller than ever but still sharp, still exactly herself, and she hugged each of them at the door the way she always had, firm and certain.
"I want to show her something," Marta said to Maya and Dominic, nodding toward Nora. "Just the two of us, if that's alright. Won't take long."
Maya looked at Dominic. He nodded.
"Go," Maya said.
Marta took Nora's hand and they walked together down the road, past Ray's old house where new people lived now, past the corner store that had become something else entirely, all the way to a small church on the edge of town with a quiet garden behind it.