She was sick. She was dying, and…she was an adult. For all those reasons, it was impossible.

She vanished like a ghost and he ran after her.

[AT] It was a world that wrapped him so comfortably, it became harder and harder to come out. Until the harsh truth breaks in - burning, cutting - and he searches for a deeper darkness, a stronger one, that will keep him forever safe, forever comfortable: a place of non-existence...

There was something there and then it was gone.

He had too many regrets, but there was nothing he could do about them now, intangible and forgotten.