Think about it, though. For over a thousand years, you've had that one person who was a constant in your life; someone immortal who isn't supposed to leave you, who is, with absolute certainty, always gonna be there. Someone you're devoted to and see not just as a parent, teacher, and guide, but somethin' more, somethin' deeper that we, as people who aren't vampires, are incapable of understanding. [ she still didn't fully understand the bond eric had felt to eric, or the one jessica has towards bill. ] And then, one day, it's gone. They're gone. That thing that was supposed to be there always and forever is no more. How do you keep gon' after that?
I mean, I lost my parents when I was young, and my grandmother was murdered last year, and gettin' out of bed after those things was hard enough. But, if someone had been around, carin' for me for that long, I don't know how I woulda done it. Y'know?