Four years. It's hard to believe that's how long has gone by. It doesn't feel like it. I thought two or three, but four? Time keeps moving on apparently. It's difficult to lose friends and not look back and consider just what the time in between could have given everyone. What events, fun conversations, jokes... moments that will never exist now that someone isn't here with us.
It's exhausting to think about. Physically and emotionally. Thinking of one fallen friend brings the others up to the front, even those you're not completely sure are actually gone. They say grief is for the living since the departed no longer care, so this year I don't want to focus just on the loss of my friend @Lathiira. I do want to remember him, but I also think it's important for all of you to remember those you've lost from our community.
Lathiira is a bard. A bard is a poet, historian, musician, but above all else they are a storyteller. Lathiira (the person behind the character) was