The way his arm protectively enveloped her waist made my stomach clench. How he used his body to shield her, like she was going to break any moment caused a pain to rip through my chest. The gentle kisses he placed at her temples made my long silenced heart drop. It was all too familiar to me.

It wasn't that I was repulsed by their blinding, obvious love. It wasn't that at all. But as I saw the pair of star-crossed lovers before me, I knew this was something I could never have again. I had lost my only chance nearly four hundred years ago. Yet, it felt like just yesterday. Where there should have been scars, there were fresh, open wounds.

And then I was transported to a different time and place.