EPISODE 5: THE REUNION ## PART ONE: FACE TO FACE ### CHAPTER 1: SARAH She was older than Marcus remembered. Of course she was—decades had passed in the living world since his suicide. Her hair was white now, her face lined with years of living. But her eyes were the same. The eyes that had first looked at him with love, then with fear, then with grief, then with a determination to survive. "Sarah." He couldn't say anything else. Her name was all he had. "I thought I'd find you here." Her voice was weaker than he remembered but still carried the warmth he'd loved. "When I realized what was happening—when I knew I was dying—I thought: maybe he's there. Maybe I'll finally get to see him again." "You wanted to see me?" "Of course I wanted to see you. I never stopped loving you, Marcus. I just couldn't stay." The words hit him harder than any door in the Corridor ever had. All those years of guilt, all those memories of her face contorted in fear and disappointment—and she'd never stopped loving him? "I don't understand." "Neither do I. But that's okay. We have time now, don't we? We have whatever this place gives us." --- ### CHAPTER 2: THE WALK Marcus walked beside Sarah, guiding her as...