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"You," I surmised, and gestured round. "Thank you.""No," he denied. His pale hair floated out from beneath his cap in a halo as he shook his head. "But I assisted. Thank you for bathing. It makes my task of checking on you less onerous. I'm glad you're awake. You snore abominably."I let this comment pass. "You've grown." I observed. "Yes. So have you. And you've been sick. And you slept quite a long time. And now you're awake and bathed and fed. You still look terrible. But you no longer smell. It's late afternoon now. Are there any other obvious facts you'd like to review?"
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"Stars do not pull each other down to be more visible, they shine brighter."

"Far help seldom solves near troubles."

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"Even a child cannot sit here without support. Some support will be necessary. No one can live without the support from the material world. After getting the support from one's own Soul, one doesn't need the support from the material world. 'He' will then become independent [support-free]."

"Loving spirits are with you every step of the way, cheering you on and offering help when they can. You are never alone."

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"As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation."

"Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting."

"I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world."

"The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places."

"This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be."

"I wish they would all go away.Except the Fool. I wished he would join me. Somehow, I had always thought he would join me. Now, I could not recall why. Perhaps I had buried that in the stone."

"The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return."

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"There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense."
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