Auden’s Blessing
At this point… it should have been enough.
My foot shifted back slightly, yet I lingered, unwilling to leave. Gathering my courage, I lifted my head and met his gaze.
“These are all the questions I wanted to ask.” After a pause, I added, “And what you wanted to say—is that all as well?”
The silence that followed felt as though it lasted a hundred years.
Until thin gray clouds drifted over, veiling vast stretches of silver stars, then quietly passing on.
“The world after rebirth… is a new world. All past relationships no longer exist.” In Odin’s eyes flowed a lonely starlight. His voice was like a deep, resonant cello: “I no longer love you. I’m sorry.”