This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. 'It surmounts evil,' he told me, 'keeps doom at bay.'
You're talent, and we're the talent scouts.
No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.
This is as 'alone' as I'm likely to get with you - you're not half so fetching as your daughter.
What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.
The universe forgives those who give until their hearts are aching and their spirits weak, and finds a way to renew all strength and cure all ills, in this world or the next, if a soul can just have faith.