CCCLVIII. The Second Attempt
"We can't let her go like this! Someone or something tried to pull her to the other side and it had a frightening force, we have to save her!" Dag continued, shouting and approaching the hole in the wall, looking up.
"Claaaire! Claaaaire! Answer me!" he yelled, caught in a sense of deep malaise, recalling the last words he had said to that poor girl, whose only fault was to be in love with the wrong person.
He thought of when she joined him at Hevnen and he abandoned her without saying a word, when he confessed her love and he told her that his heart belonged to another woman and she gotta get over it.
Even the day before he had been rude to her, only because once again she had followed him, out of the sheer desire to be close to him, even for a short time, even if she would risk her life.
Dag put his hand to the wall and looked down.