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She could understand already what next he would face, the homesickness that came with being away from family; she’d been travelling for some time now, and felt that very ache from time to time. Most often now it was hardly there but, every now and again, something would remind her of them and it’d get a little bigger.

He didn’t know where he was going, which she nodded in response to. “Sometimes just wandering is better than knowing where you’re going,” she added. At least, she believed so; believing that made travelling easier, she felt.

“And when you eventually go back home, you’ll have stories to share with your family,” she noted. “I always loved hearing my father’s stories.” Granted, his stories were all of the distant past, and she’d never had to experience him leaving the family behind.