Nish left today. She\u2019s going by boat because the roads west of here aren\u2019t the safest way to travel, so we said our goodbyes on the docks at the riverfront.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not very good at this,\u201d she said to me. \u201cSaying good-bye, I mean. You\u2019d think I would be by now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMe neither,\u201d I said. \u201cI never know what to say. And I\u2019m best at just avoiding it altogether.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n We embraced for a long time, then pulled away, both our eyes wet with tears.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cLook. I don\u2019t know what happened behind you. But I know the difference between moving toward something and running away. Keep moving toward it, all right?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n I could only nod, fast and tight, then gave her another hug.<\/span><\/p>\n She pulled away first and boarded without another word.<\/span><\/p>\n Through the bond, I felt Iskaryn\u2019s steady presence from somewhere above the rooftops. Not pushing. Not correcting. Just there.<\/span><\/p>\n I stayed and watched until the boat pushed off and slipped into the river\u2019s current.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saringallow Evening Nish left today. She\u2019s going by boat because the roads west of here aren\u2019t the safest way to travel, so we said our goodbyes on the docks at the riverfront. \u201cI\u2019m not very good at this,\u201d she said to me. \u201cSaying good-bye, I mean. You\u2019d think I would be by now.\u201d \u201cMe neither,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-5395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aoa-vignettes","tag-aemi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5396,"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions\/5396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}