[ He has not been king long, and is trying as hard as he can not to be kingly for even longer. ]

That is what haunts me. My husband says time moves differently here, that our absence may be but a moment in our home. He says he was here for months already when I arrived, and it is true that we would have noticed such an absence. We can not know it with absolute certainty, but if I do not believe that then I will surely lose my mind.