It was a journey of hope and a new beginning. She'd seen these faces before. Shattered dreams that had grown old and crumbled. They'd seen the prosperity of the land, something they'd taken for granted but not through any fault in their character, because now they understood how tenuous life can be.

Having journeyed the road far into the wilderness, they came together now, in a place full of cherished memories. Again, she felt like an outsider. She'd heard the sounds of their laughter on the wind. The births, the deaths of all the generations before. A place where passions burned and loves won and lost. The happiest of times and the saddest of times.

She could not speak but she spoke in a hundred silent ways. She reached out to him and hugged him and she could feel the sadness slowly leave his body. Soon time would heal all things because love takes on many different faces.