I have to admit, a part of me still wonders if time really does stop back home. Sometimes I feel like everything is just continuing without me and..and that no one even notices I'm not there.

[Because living in the shadows, so to speak, was how she had done things. How the Turks had always done things.

Would they even realize she was missing?]

Still...having her come and go like that couldn't have been easy. Even if you were only officially together for a few days before she left, pain is still pain.