Forget Me Knots | A. Shelby

Before the war made him a mad dog, Arthur Shelby was a man learning how to survive.

Separated from his brothers and buried in the mud of his first year at the front, Arthur becomes something vicious enough to keep breathing. During a single month of forced downtime, he meets Charlotte "Red" Bohiem-a woman who offers warmth without promises and sees him without trying to save him.

Years later, Arthur returns to bury her.

This is the story he tells when asked how he knew her.