Status Updates From The Vorrh (The Vorrh Trilog...

"They spent the coming days making preparations for his departure. Like the experience of all about to separate, the strain of an imagined elsewhere bore a hurtful torque on the moments they actually inhabited."

2/2: ". . . It was not maternal and was certainly not fed by perversity from the injuries of his brutality. It was her presence, which had become entangled with his, behind circumstances and sometimes even personality. She would stay until the end . . . She now understood that the rest of their time together would be . . . a constant dusk. She would maintain it and work on its luminance."

1/2: "His death was the enigma that stalked her life, and . . . it was not the tangled weight of responsibility that . . . kept her close; it was something stronger, something strangely unnecessary and totally essential; a kind of love; a constant need to contain and guard with unflinching proximity."

"He was listless; he could not settle or write. He roamed the rooms, peering through the curtains into the diminished City of Light; he talked about travelling again, used movement as a surrogate for thought."

Soooo confusing so far

"Yet again, sight had trampled everything else, and she had been lessened by it . . . She wanted to wrap herself in the darkness of the bedsheets and banish all visual memory, to remember only the luxurious depth of her stored library of touch, sound, and scent."