Nobody ever cared for me as far as I can remember.
Perhaps you could.

Yes, I live on the sea.

But who would you be parting from?
No one.

You have no one belonging to you." At this point she broke away from him and ran.

He did not pursue her.
The tall hedges tossing in the wind, the wide fields, the clouds driving over the sky and the sky itself wheeled about her in masses of green and white and blue as if the world were breaking up silently in a whirl, and her foot at the next step were bound to find the void.