The Last Thing That's Holding Me

They said the world seemed to be filling with elves. I can hardly counter the claim, being one of them and all. Sometimes I wonder, though, if there’s really that many of us, or just far fewer of them.

It’s easy, in this life and on these worlds, to lose people. For weeks, months, years, maybe permanently. My family, our little makeshift groups, scattered to the winds of this world and the other when the Portal opened and it seems like some of them aren’t coming back. I tried to recover, catch up, be strong enough again, but it’s hard when their pace gains momentum in time, and I’ve always been better at a sprint than a marathon.

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