[A thoughtful hum was the initial response as Waver compulsively reached for his hood, dragging it back up over his head so he could have just one small shield from the world.]

...That happened to me, at first.

[He said thoughtfully, still riding the tails of sympathy despite not having grasp of the full situation. Anna, surely, would have a fit if she knew he was showing a thread of understanding for the Emperor of the Nine Houses that slaughtered life throughout the whole of their solar system.]

The person I spent my life trying to hold again appeared before me for a day over the spring, when those ghostly lighthouses reached out over the horizon. I was overwhelmed-- but before I knew it, he had returned to the sea.

[A sigh shuddered his shoulders. Those early months without Iskandar or anyone he knew had been dreadfully difficult on every level.]

That was the month where we had no sun. I was so aggrieved that I fell for a trick and tried to walk into the sea. Obviously, I didn't. And it was only the following month, after the sun had risen, that he arrived once again and stayed.

[He gazed at the man that was God without wavering, feeling the teacherly-urge to clarify for unruly students in case he had left any room for doubt:]

What I'm saying is that it's possible she might come back to you. We don't know how the seas here works-- not that you haven't tried to understand, from all that noise on the Network.

...It's hard, but trust the process. And-- maybe keep a steady supply of glassware, in case she's hungry.