It wasn't cold, it wasn't warm... but it still was. It was dark to the right, to the left, above and below, only darkness and even the memory of the light wanted to fade; as the memory of any sound did, leaving behind a painful silence and the certainty that there was something missing. Darkness and silence had prevailed, they always did, they always do… they always will. He knew it. "Look at you, look what you have achieved, your once wonderful soul turned into this…" the woman said, the light said. She had golden hair, pale skin, green eyes. She was beautiful, unreal, dressed in silver armor, she was an angel. Sabriel. "Did they…" "They are beyond your reach, they are in High Heaven, they are in peace," she said. She was there to tell him so. It was the end, the farewell. "I'm so so

