Grief does not change you, it reveals you

How could Mikael tell her? How could he explain, the depth of the sorrow that had collected deep within his gut? That he had found the land he had once lived in, found the bones of his father in a cave and that he had just curled up and wept the bitter saccharine of true regret. He had no words to tell her, no way to make her forgive him. "I went looking for the truth. I went looking for answers. And my foolish heart made me so blind to the fact that the answers where here. You are the truth... I went home. I went to find my family, to find my sister. I found nothing but bones and ashes and dust." Those last few words broke him and perhaps he had been too long. Has she forgotten him? Had he left her too long, caught up in his own soulful pain?

"I can't ask you to forgive me. But never did I forget you. Never. How could I?"