[In Milliways: There was a sending.
Out of Milliways: And some went the short way, and some
took the longer path.
Very Out of Milliways: Because sometimes you have to
wrap up a loose thread or two. Stories aren't a straight line. Stories are a lifetime of going of the path and finding your way home again.
In Its Own Time, Place, And Name: And then, of course,
you close the book when everyone does get to be, if not live, entirely happy.
Forever after.
Each in his or her own time.
And so it goes.]