Sunspire Mountains Waiting for a friend

"Alaska - then we have almost been neighbours," Birk exclaimed, without realizing that the distance between them could have been measured in thousands and thousands of miles. The rest of the story, however, made him feel a little uncomfortable. While good at listening, he was not particularly good at giving advice or finding the right words to say to make the person in question feel a bit better.

"I think that the guy might have lost a very precious gem," he told her. First impressions could always be wrong, but since he probably was not going to see Gwen again or in a very long time at least, he was at liberty of making assumptions as false as they could be. "I don't see any reason, why anyone would leave you. You are good-looking, young, smart and nice. What else is there to look for?"