That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change. The Fool in Fool's Fate

Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.

In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.

...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.

Remember with your heart. Go back, go back and go back. The skies of this world were always meant to have dragons. When they are not here, humans miss them. Some never think of them, of course. But some children, from the time they are small, they look up at the blue summer sky and watch for something that never comes. Because they know. Something that was supposed to be there faded and vanished. Something that we must bring back, you and I.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?