Chapter Nine.

She leaves me stranded in the cold and lonely night, and the wailing winds that twirl around my body mock my willing sacrifice.
Indeed, the winds no longer carry my passionate call to her.
The crushing weight of silence and darkness is all I experience as I endure her absence, for she did not choose my company tonight, and so I sit and lose myself in all the joyful memories of my time with her.
From time to time I look toward my gods with a rebellious stare.
I ask them why they brought her here, to heal the bleeding wounds I bear as a consequence of my sacrifices, if in the end she shall reject the dream we share, the dream we created together.
I see her face in my mind and my anger dissipates into the shadowed skies where I found her spirit, for it is my duty to wait for her with a patient and understanding heart.
Her soul is trapped, her mind is confused, her passion cannot be tamed.
I sit and peruse her beauty with my lonesome spirit, while somewhere in the distant night...