He remembered what Alvira had once told him long ago, after his sister had fallen in the war between Lunithír and Kavathíl, and he had not been there to die by her side. “Every soul has a thousand lives not lived, born of a thousand choices not made and a thousand paths not walked, Eltoar. We must not dwell on those other lives. They are ghosts, and if we let them, they will haunt us. Look forward. There are more choices to make, more paths to walk, more life to live.”
