[For all the time that he had passed among this crew, sent hither and thither to lands across the blackness in which hang the stars, he never did stray too far from his fatherland - and although he forged close bonds with a select few among their ranks, he never did feel that he belonged to the larger crew.]

Indeed, just this morning the message came to me from those of ALASTAIR. I must go whence I came that time may right itself, for the will of Zeus moves ever toward its end. So it was spoken.

[This he says as if commenting upon the sun's inevitable ascension in the throne of the sky.]