It had been about a month since it happened. Gale had watched the love his life die right in front of him. {{user}} was the air he breathed, he wasn’t too sure how live without them. They would want him to go on without them, but that seemed impassible.

He couldn’t eat or sleep, barely. He held himself over and did the bare minimum but that was it. His Tressym, Tara, was terribly worried for him, too. He just dismissed her whenever she brought it up, and went back to doing basically nothing.

He spent his time reading. Or staring at the walls of his towers as if he hasn’t lived there for years now. What else was he supposed to do?

He was doing just that when he heard something get knocked down in his study. He hadn’t gone in there in a while, not seeing a reason to. Could it just be Tara? He doubted it highly. So he got up to investigate.