Sleepy Fox Hollow Where I thought I knew it all before I knew what love was

"because i must. because i am selfish. because i have held it for so long." any of those reasons, any more besides. mahler dropped finally to his haunches, unwilling and unable to tower longer.
"you disappeared from grimnismal. vhen i found you in sviftcurrent, you turned me avay. that is all right," he hastened to assure her. "perhaps i should not have followed but." tones trailed off helplessly.
a long silence followed, in which winter's breath burnt through this thick coat; he exhaled his breath in an long plume.
"because i did not realize it until you vhere gone for good." to speak to her now, he could hardly believe it; to be near; to have her scent in the frigid air — it was not something mahler had ever expected.