"Perhaps." Herdis observed. She rather hoped not. She wanted to believe that her children had lived fulfilling lives, not had them cut short. "Though it is my..." She paused, struggling for a moment. "Thought that the people who are returning are doing so because they did not seem to live out the full measure of life. I hope that they lived well and full, where I did not." She frowned. "Even if I will miss them."