Talking about her just makes it worse, so I try not to. She's a part of me in a very literal sense, so our being separated with me here hasn't been easy. It hurts, but in a weird way 'cause I'm not entirely sure how to describe it..?

[ maybe it's because she's already working on patching him up that he feels he can talk about it. maybe he's not just crazy (which was a theory at least once). ]

I miss her, but I'm used to that. We'll see each other again. [ he says this without a shred of doubt. ] But it's more than that. It's almost physical but there's nothing for it, so it's hard to shake it.

[ the concept of "phantom pain" in that way doesn't really exist in his mind. he knows he feels something, and he knows he feels something he shouldn't because there's nothing there that should be hurting, so he just accepts it like everything else. ]

There's a woman in town who looks a lot like her, so I guess she's been on my mind more than usual.