The extreme pain made Fisher instinctively want to escape, to flee to a place where the pain could not catch up with him, to flee to a place that was absolutely safe.
His consciousness thus, on reflex, ran off toward an unknown direction, until it shook off everything around him, turned everything he had experienced into a dream, and cast it into a confusion where no path could be seen.
In this flight, it was as if he had never obtained that thing called the Demi-human Girls Completion Manual; as if he had never left Saint Nali at all.
Then, if that were so, before Gedelin IX was about to die, he too should have finally been unable to suppress the youth he had failed years ago, and taken the initiative to write to Elizabeth Gedelin. Just as in the letter that had never been sent, they would have met once more, and let all their past be melted away and forgiven.
