Reality strikes a heavy blow as I realize I’ve been dreaming again, and yet… somehow that reality is a worse blow than any I received last night.

Even after being beaten to within an inch of my life, my gut wrenches with the deep longing I still have for her; even these dungeons can’t keep the memory of her at bay.

She seems to never leave me as she still lives within the recesses of my mind.

-

Alister’s life will never be the same.

She changed him, opening his eyes and forcing him to reach beyond his small, perfectly structured world to find truth.

And maybe even hope; hope of a different life, a life filled with an all-consuming love.

Could he become the man she always knew him to be?

Or will he take the easy road -the road he’s always traveled- and turn back to the only life he’s known.

A life where ‘relationship’ is a dirty word and solitude is his truest friend.