But questions weren't important, or rather, anything at that matter except for the present moment. It continued on, small talk and catching her up on things, a day becoming dusk and dusk becoming night. Great, black night. The stars didn't reach the Depths -- the Depths were not sacred enough for the stars. No light was. In the end, no matter how warm the heart is, the heart belongs to those hidden from God's light.

But I could not hide at such a time, and eventually, I had to leave for that night. With fond goodbyes, and feeling a hug for the first time in forever, I went off, searching for that great flat zone as a means to Sugarteara again. It was not hard to find, nor hard to traverse. But quickly, the warmth from that night with family for the first time in my life faded. Just as it was taken away the first time, I had to return to what I was fated for -- it was a lonely fate, but if I was to disobey it, escape the light, and find another home to be, I would be a sinner in her eyes.

Who's eyes was her's, anyways? God or...the only one left? There's no way I could disrupt her right now, alone in the temple. No way at all that I could walk in. That, too, was sealed off from me. Loneliness had set in again, a chase that I could not outdo. It was fate. God's fate. To guard this city as it stood right now was to be a one-man army, a lonely solider. Lonely, cold, my body's so cold. It's so cold at night in the water, with nobody to be around. No body heat to share. Nobody. Alone. Like a fog that I could inhale -- alone. The word that stood out -- alone. Alone. Alone. Alone. Alone...