"assuming his manner and form?" "I felt it since the very start, an absence in your touch, no matter how warm, an emptiness." "I turned from it, certain one day I would be able to fill it." "The gods themselves would fail such effort." "Will it move you... one day when you see me in the arms of another?" "I will know the sting of it... yet I pray you find in them... what you could not find in mine." "You almost had them." "Almost."