[More than half, if he's honest. Most of it. And he doesn't want the parts he thinks he does understand to be real.]
The only comparison that comes to mind is of being spirited away to a fairy court, but time operates the opposite way there....
[This is something John would throw himself into with the sort of enthusiasm only an American could. It's that knowledge and a photograph-sharp memory of the way John would smile, grim and stubborn, before flinging himself into a fight for someone else's sake, God, why was he like that which drags Eric's voice into trailing off - that, and a sudden fierce stab of what he can only call homesickness, lacking any better word; a longing and a wish like a knife to the chest that he was here, too.
But - and this is a vitally important "but" - John isn't here. This is his work to take up.
And yet - ]
Is there truly no way of bringing another from... [home] from where we came from?
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[More than half, if he's honest. Most of it. And he doesn't want the parts he thinks he does understand to be real.]
The only comparison that comes to mind is of being spirited away to a fairy court, but time operates the opposite way there....
[This is something John would throw himself into with the sort of enthusiasm only an American could. It's that knowledge
and a photograph-sharp memory of the way John would smile, grim and stubborn, before flinging himself into a fight for someone else's sake, God, why was he like thatwhich drags Eric's voice into trailing off - that, and a sudden fierce stab of what he can only call homesickness, lacking any better word; a longing and a wish like a knife to the chest that he was here, too.But - and this is a vitally important "but" - John isn't here. This is his work to take up.
And yet - ]
Is there truly no way of bringing another from... [home] from where we came from?