Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.

The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.

Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?