Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.

The mind can’t explain it, and you can’t make it go away. It’s called love.

For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.

Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.

He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself