Train ticket, check.
Luggage, check.
Okay, let's sit down and enjoy the view.
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I left Tomen three years ago. They said it has changed a lot… I wonder how it looks like now…
Sometimes I just can't believe that I used to live that kind of life. Back then everything seemed so normal, but now that I live here, I do realize how special it was...
Wow, what a big lake! It's been a while since I saw one that big (what was I doing on the way on?)! Lu used to tell me that his tribe lived near in a lake, I wonder if it looked like this one... Perhaps there are other Honous living in there...
Uh, I wonder how he is doing now. Almost two hundred years far from his family, that's such a long time... I miss him terribly, though. I promised myself not to think about it too much, but there is always something that reminds me of him. On the other hand, what can I do? He was part of me...
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Up until five years ago, my greatest dream was to leave Chang'en and travel around the world to discover those places I could only imagine of. Something that I could only dream of as I was a Seal. But then... The unthinkable happened!
Well... I must say it didn't happen as I expected, though... I mean, I never planned to be a fugitive or find myself in the midst of a rebellion! Among other things...
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Do I regret my choices?
That's not something I am willing to answer anytime soon.
But I do not regret the way things went. Not in a billion of years.
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True, if things keep going the way it did in the last couple of years, Honous and Seals will become a folk legend and swords will be used as museum items... But that's up to us to make sure our story won't be forgotten.
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In one month starting from now, I will go back to the place that saw me come to life and grow up. But it won't be the same anymore. I am not the same anymore.
I am pretty sure that although we have a part of responsibilty in what is considered 'fate', but there were things we couldn't avoid from the start. I still have a hard time to distinguish the two, but some things are cristally clear today.
Me and him were already meant to meet...