"Aye. I know she's gone. Five hundred years of being bound to one's person does that to a ....man." He didn't bother to turn around, only stared down at the stairs down in front of him.
He sighed heavily and mumbled again, "Aye....She's gone... Ne'er to return." It only broke his heart more to know that even more so that there was no returning back to his former body. He was indeed just a man.