“I looked to the north and saw the large shadow of one of those fearsome beasts. I couldn’t bear to look south.”

“There are some days when it all feels for naught.”

“I refuse to put a number to your absence.”

“Do you have any idea what it’s like to be the one left behind?”

“I hope the sunset today is as beautiful as the day you left.”

“I do hope they go out there and do marvelous things. Just as you have done.”

“What if that single moment I’m gone is when you decide to return to me?”

“Your name is like a ghost in this village.”

“Grief at your abandonment has left me in such a way I have no energy left to do naught else but breathe.”