Moths and Lavender Sachets

She's only nineteen when she runs away to Zagreb with nothing but a change of clothes and some stolen foreign money.

He's only twenty-three when he loses the man he loved to the whims of the empire.

Jasna takes time off work, puts rum in his tea even though he hates it because honestly, Robert, you need a pick-me-up, you'll get sick again, tries to get him to at least take a walk to the cathedral with her. He does, eventually, but he doesn't talk or explain his absence. The neighbors all look at him with contempt, but it's better to be hated for rudeness than for being unnatural.

Robert and Jasna Sabljak live in Upper Town and nothing good ever happens to them. They're strange and keep to themselves, and one day they're going to burn this country to the ground.