It wanted about an hour to midnight at this time, and the red glow of the sun in the sky was flooding the north.
Now for a long while I paced the deck, thinking of all that had happened in these few days.

Heavy things they were, but the heaviest were those of the summer morning when Heidrek came, so that beside those terrors what else had passed was as nothing.

And I passed through them all again, as it were, and hardened myself to bear them.
I have said little or nothing of my folk, and I needed not to do so.

They were gone, and from henceforth I was alone.

What had been was no more for me.