"My wife, Juliet," Romeo expositioned, "who, as you know, has been dead these many months, has resurfaced among us. And my heart's happiness at that news is dampened, both because I have given that organ to another in her absence and because my beloved Yurika is with child. A priest cautioned me marriage is forever, but a child is forever too, is it not?"

He gave Reno an open, pleading look. "I know not what to say to either of them. I cannot bear to break their hearts."