The Haunting of Velkwood

I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the marks they leave on you.

I've just come face-to-face with a street full of ghosts, but nobody's ever haunted me like she does.

A knot of pain twists inside me. It seems like everyone we love just ends up turning into ghosts.

Are you proud of me, Talitha?" she'd ask each time, and I never understood why it mattered. She had the whole world at her feet. I don't know why she needed me there as well.

There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in now and an unbreachable gulf between.

Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it.

It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate seed-- I've just come face-to-face with a street full of ghosts... but nobody's ever haunted me like she does.