Cavalier— it's an official position back home, but you can think of her as my best-friend-plus-occasional-bodyguard. I'm eminently fragile. [haha, anyway,] She was here, a few months ago. Then one morning she wasn't.

[He's quiet a moment, fully in his head about that particular loss, before he sighs shortly and comes back to the conversation.]

Does it have to do something? Think of it as practice. In case the people you wrote to show up here.