... Then there's that root that goes beyond what we find inside ourselves.

It's a territory.

A plane of existence that escapes our fears, our woes. It's an easy concept. We can all find that one.

I know nothing, yet - I know enough.

It's time to drop the king.

We met once.

I thought, "I could do that. I could walk into an office, hand a man the key to my heart and he'd find his way home."

He already has a watch. He already has a key. He already has a home.

I went looking for a job. I lost my home.

I couldn't stay in Austin. I in favour of something more riveting - something, I've never known.

I never imagined you would have responded. I think about what it took to get you to respond.

It took a lot out of me.

I keep repeating myself.
I'm not getting through to anybody.
I'm left with all that I'm left with.

I reckon; that would be, what one would call, my soul.

That look behind, Howard's eyes. I'll never forget that look.

Those aren't your eyes, though - those are the eyes of a man I made up. A man that I thought I met, but I've never seen him before in my life.

And that feeling that went with that look, that is something I've never felt before.

That's a feeling that I couldn't imagine.

I choose to dream that you've never had that feeling.

There's no way that you possibly could.

I was serious.
I wanted that journey.
I gave you a part of me.

I think about what little you gave back and that was amazing.

I told you - I'm not very good at chess, but I play to win.

There's a first time for everything, I suppose.

I'm getting ready for the next book in the Life Imitates Art Series!

Check out Dinner, to get a first glance at Howard Herman as Xenos.
Life Imitates Art, Tier II: Dinner