"It's not such an awful thing, you know." Stopped in her own tracks, she followed the gaze of his eyes. They didn't seem to go anyplace. "To have someplace to miss, I mean. Missing something is a way of carrying it with you." That sounded like something Dallben would have said, she thought. And Dallben was almost always right.

"But it's not just that you were thinking of, is it?"