“emptiness, loneliness, regression, anger, depression, no hope at all”
“The change is surprising, but not unwelcome. I am not stuck. I am in the exact place I want to be. I may have lost a lot, but I’ve gained much more.”
“I vow’d that I would dedicate my powers/To thee and thine: have I not kept the vow?”
“He died, how could we let him be forgotten…”
“Do you recall how we came to that place/ a terrible gate and a smile on my face/ I knocked on the door and accepted my fate/ and became a candle to-”
“Hence nothing remains- except, perhaps, for our regrets. (Even so- )”
“He sought his triumph, to ask the question that even dreams could not understand. The fool still believes he could come back. Still.”
“The world is quiet here.”
“Reborn into this new world, a world of strange and terrifying things, I found that there was much work to be done, many sins needing atonement.”
“The Starry-Eyed Artisan is sated at last. She has completed her final masterpiece, a beauty nothing like what the Neath can offer.”
“My revenge, His revenge, the Game, the Promise, the reason we came to that place, it all ends here. All shall be well, but not for you and not for me.”
“The Youth, who daily farther from the east / Must travel, still is Nature’s priest, / At length the Man perceives it die away / And fade away into - ”
“I have gone down, down, my love. Down, my love, to the well. To weep and grieve and remember and burn. Light a candle for me, O my love! Fare well.”
“The Tenhigh Broker gone NORTH. Higher NORTH than even he expected.”
“My hunger was satisfied.”