He swallows back some of what threatens to overwhelm him, moving away to lean against the doorframe and stare out into the rest of the apartment.
"No matter how much I'd like to be the man who picks the present over an uncertain past, I'm not and I can't be. Gilbert was my companion over three lifetimes, longer and through more than anyone should ever live. I loved him, and I did not realise it until he was gone. I cannot hope to build that again, nor am I entirely sure I want to. But I can live here, in the flat we shared. In the halls of the nightmarish House were we kept eachother alive and sane. And in the music and revelries of the world that moved on without us."
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He swallows back some of what threatens to overwhelm him, moving away to lean against the doorframe and stare out into the rest of the apartment.
"No matter how much I'd like to be the man who picks the present over an uncertain past, I'm not and I can't be. Gilbert was my companion over three lifetimes, longer and through more than anyone should ever live. I loved him, and I did not realise it until he was gone. I cannot hope to build that again, nor am I entirely sure I want to. But I can live here, in the flat we shared. In the halls of the nightmarish House were we kept eachother alive and sane. And in the music and revelries of the world that moved on without us."