To them, he might seem a hopeless romantic, but he refused to surrender to helplessness. That was his way - he would not be anyone's savior; he had accepted this mission for her. He could not bear responsibility for a people he had joined only to honor her. What else bound him to this island, kept him confined to this patch of land, if not her? What meaning did all his struggles of the past month hold, if he was to lose her in the end?
The moment he gave up - stopped trying - would mark his true separation from Ah-rah and its people. And what would keep him among them after that, if not the hope of her return? He would have to set off toward distant horizons, perhaps to meet her paths again in another place, another time.
