From a point of view other than their own...

They hung back from the group, who at present were rushing forward into the darkness, into danger once again.
"I wonder," he said.
She looked at him, as he took a pause to gather his thoughts.
"You wonder?"
"Yes. I wonder if this is how things should have been."
"Of course this is how things should be, it's what we dreamed of, darling. Now, we're going to fall behind!" She left him alone with his thoughts, as her urge to catch up to the firey adventure won her over.
"Dreams, yes," he said aloud in the muted darkness, "your dreams are what I have lived for, darling. And they are what I shall forever live for." With that, Paul was off, running again, to find the danger, and brave it. It was this moment, however, that caused him to yearn to look back. The two had lived a long life together. Always together. So much had happened, some of which was remembered, most of which was forgotten. Paul could feel the end of his employment drawing ever nearer, and decided that mayhaps now was the time to remember. The time to recall.

And thus our story begins, tragically so near the ending.