Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

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

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest

You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick

A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.