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Immediately Remus's eyes flicked to where Apollo and Ariel were sitting, closer than he had ever seen them before. He understood, and merely nuzzled Layla's withers in sympathy. "There will be," he promised in a friendly, fatherly way. "You've got your whole life ahead of you, Layla. You're going to find someone, whether now, or five years from now."
Layla kept crying. "But... But I loved him..." She sobbed on his shoulder.
"I know," he murmured soothingly. "I know." And he did know. The crushing forlornness, the heart-wrenching sorrow at being forgotten and swept under the rug, out of sight and out of mind. "But trust me when I say that it gets better."