If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.
And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.
Is magic not enough to live for?
People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to
I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.
It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.