“Clara sometimes asks me if I dream. ‘Of course I dream’, I tell her. 'Everybody dreams’. 'But what do you dream about?’ she’ll ask. 'The same thing everybody dreams about,’ I tell her. 'I dream about where I’m going.’ She always laughs at that. 'But you’re not going anywhere, you’re just wandering about.’
That’s not true. Not anymore. I have a new destination. My journey is the same as yours, the same as anyone’s. It’s taken me so many years, so many lifetimes, but at last I know where I’m going. Where I’ve always been going. Home. The long way around.”