He looked deep into her mournful, lavender eyes and a bittersweet tide flooded the deepest recesses of his core, and though she was not yet of this world, she could feel his heartbreaking sorrow faintly hidden behind his caring smile. "It is time, my beloved, to sever the umbilical cord that binds you to me...henceforth, your eyes shall be open to the truth, and this will liberate you beyond the shadow of any doubt, but beware of the perils, for freedom threatens purity with sin..." She lovingly caressed his face and held his hand tightly, as if she could make him stay, as if she could tear out of the book of fate the sad truth that filled her heart with ache, and share the future they deserved... but his life for hers was the pact, and as it was written, so shall it be done. "I shall cross the rivers of time and find you, in this life or the next...", and he was gone, as if he had never existed, dissolving into the unfathomable ether...