The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.
People you love never die. That is what Omai had said, all those years ago. And he was right. They don't die. Not completely. They live in your mind, the way they always lived inside you. You keep their light alive. If you remember them well enough, they can still guide you, like the shine of long-extinguished stars could guide ships in unfamiliar waters.
The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.
