Re: Death / Destiny - The Garden (warning for sads)
[His concern is not over how he will miss her nor over the changes that have wrought to her during the time when she was alone here. This is necessary for her and between the journals and the hotel, she will not be far. No, his concern is in what will come, but he can neither voice this, nor let it show even when she embraces him.]
Of course. [He will care and keep what is hers, and when her duties are filled, he will pass it on to them - but this he doesn't say either. Once these things are given up, they are no longer strictly her concern. And he does not want the burden of knowledge to follow her into the life she's chosen.
He gives her a single pat on the back, one long fingered hand resting briefly on the small before the garden shifts as it must for her. Rows close off until there is only a single path left and he releases her to gesture to it.] The way is open to you. Once you start, you will not be allowed to turn back. [It's the only warning he can give her - he can not tell her how long the path is, or what she will find on it.]