(A scroll Gabrielle receives.)
By the time you read this
I will no longer be apart of this world anymore.
By the gods Gabrielle please don't try to find me.
I set out on this journey to redeem the awful things I had done, knowing well that I could never be forgiven.
Still I longed, as I now know you did too, for a family, a home, a place I could belong.
I found that family, that home, that place.
It was and will always be within your heart.
Half of me is you now.
I could have been given a million days, and it would still never be enough.
You became my air, my thoughts, my peace, my reason to carry on.
I will miss our adventures, our conversations, our laughs, even the times where we fought, or cried together.
I think I will miss holding you the most, or kissing you, or the way your hand fits into mine so well, or
the sound of your voice.
But...
I must do this, not just for the world, not just for the people,
but for you.
My soul, my truth, my tree.
I love you, and I know that love will live on through you, and in your life.
Know that you are the greatest thing that ever happened to me, and I don't regret anything.
- Xena.