002 - eye
She isn't sure when he'd started using the words.
She knows that he doesn't like to say goodbye. He'll say good day, or good night, but not goodbye. She thinks it's because he's had to say it too many times … to his father, his mother, his friends in England, the only home he'd ever known. People and things that he can or will never go back to.
But when he is going to be gone a long time, he will use the words, needing always to remind her of the promise of his return.
"Keep weather eye on the horizon."
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