Whoa...Clive Barker FTW...

[rebbawskaced]

Absence was a fine discipline for the spirit when the world's bounty was a step away, and boundless. Not so now. Now it reminded him of an emptiness that he both feared and feared to be filled, like the haunted place at the shoulder of a twin who'd lost its other inside the womb.

How...horrifyingly accurate. *shivers*