This has been long overdue, and now is the time for me to take this final step towards total reclusion.

I will find my solace and refuge in the mountains and the skies. In my meditations, I will seek renewed understandings of things. In my prayers, I will remember to me all the people I have encountered.

I don't know how long this will take. Perhaps forever. Perhaps just for a moment. Time is standing still for me right now.

Before I part for the mountains, I wish to comment on "love". Someone mentioned in a recent post how cheapened "love" has become.

"Love" is expanding in my heart right now, not just for the treasured few, but to you all, even those I used to despise or loathe in the past. This is the one true love that can't be contained in the confines of a single relationship. Every relationship, no matter how noble or twisted it is, is simply an attempt of ours to enter into the one true "love".

I bid you all farewell.

Mistral

Penned by my hand on the 1st of Chronos, in the year 257 AF.