I suppose it is obvious looking back on it, but when I arrived on the ship, I was unwell. My sickness started when I thought my wife had died. In truth, Arabella was kidnapped, spirited away to Faerie by the same fiend that cursed me, but that does not change the fact that I mourned for and buried something that I thought was my wife. I only started to recover when I learned that she was alive—and even then, I doubt I shall reach the heights of stability or sanity that I once had.
She has always been my rock, the one person to bring me back to my senses and chase me down from my flights of fancy. I know that I will have to rely on myself and temper my own desires now that she is not here but as many people have told me, I have never been good at things like exercising restraint.
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I suppose it is obvious looking back on it, but when I arrived on the ship, I was unwell. My sickness started when I thought my wife had died. In truth, Arabella was kidnapped, spirited away to Faerie by the same fiend that cursed me, but that does not change the fact that I mourned for and buried something that I thought was my wife. I only started to recover when I learned that she was alive—and even then, I doubt I shall reach the heights of stability or sanity that I once had.
She has always been my rock, the one person to bring me back to my senses and chase me down from my flights of fancy. I know that I will have to rely on myself and temper my own desires now that she is not here but as many people have told me, I have never been good at things like exercising restraint.