"Husband? You think you'll be a woman in the next life?" Jigen chuckled, letting the smoke waft from his fingertips before sucking on the cigarette again.

"Nah, mine's...mine's complicated. Annoying but an annoying I need. The dreams I have with him in it...they feel more real than reality, sometimes."

More intense. More beautiful. Jigen's fingers tense on the cigarette, denting it.