Sunset Valley ma'am... some other sunset

Patience. It was a thing he'd not stopped to consider for a long time. Desperation. Conviction. Stubborn pride. Resignation. These things had been driving him. Was there any use in the world for patience, when there seemed to be nothing left to wait for?

He supposed that the answer was to wait and see.

"Perhaps," he replied, though his track record made prospects far from promising. He dipped his head.

"Go in peace, Pala," he murmured, disappointed and relieved at once to quit her company.