A Vow to the Departed

[PumkinBumkin]

Swan,

I've come back just as I had said I'd eventually would. Map in hand, your letter in the same condition as when you gave it to me; unopened.... That is what I'd like to have said to you in person yet life is just that cruel at times. To think I couldn't hear these words you left me in person and only through paper... Having returned from 'that place', Esshar truly looks different even after five whole years.

 Five years in which I've come to understand that there is something I absolutely must do. 

I'm just one inch, one inch closer to acquiring what is very much my 'birthright.' 

No, more like a centimeter...

"But what if I'm not enough?....

...is it still that far out of my reach?"

There is still...uncertainty however.  It's clear that there is still so much to do before I can fulfil my promise to you or rather; my promise tomyself. They took you from me after all. 

However,

I've found others that can help push me towards it, what may have appeared to be impossible now becoming a reality. It wont be a distant dream any longer.... I'll get them, I'll get all of them just you wait; but I also want to know...

Would you be satisfied with who I've become? No...I know you will be.

If only we could have talked, one last time.