“Because you are correct. I am lonely. I have endured this loneliness for over a century. It ate away at me at first—the isolation, the quiet, the longing for touch from another. But eventually, I resigned myself to being alone. I convinced myself that the loneliness did not affect me since I accepted my fate. That I did not feel alone—therefore, I was not lonely. And I remained that way. Until you appeared. Then, that devastating loneliness brewed within me again, and when I tried to brush it aside once more, it only festered and grew every time you came to me and left again.”
