canto 36 to here i was sent as much as you as much as your desire willed your desired will and it suits me well though not you so well although you have been made thus suitable you are material still and are embodied but not solid rather akin to this comets tail as this continents pebble disperses before the sun in a tail as the sun blows away the scales of the ice and as the pebble becomes its airy tail and here you are now in between moons in my lair oh my lair no my place for the time being only while being in time with a foot i have never nor ever had always there in eternity beside the eternal the one in three the uncounted immortals like me the accumulating thousands of millions of immortals like you who die and live on yes your mother yes your father too but you have not yet died not dead just suitably like the vacuous tail and here i am to ferry you who can no longer walk between moons as i have ferried many others since the dragon fell is falling will fall around the newborn aging extinguished sun making of its collapse a path of improper in-betweens and repeatedly tens of millions of strides made as but one and some to places like this where no ones foot can step and here you are less than a cloud and needing my ferrying along oh no i am not the animus of this comet which knows its own inanimate ends i just enjoy it here and am suited to here and was sent to here and here you have come and become what you must to not die just as you once were adapted made as stone yes a gift but also a lingering accident of the way the dragon made itself suitable to anywhere it impinges and given to you as the sun is given and warms you and the earth is given and holds you and yes oh yes your prince is safe your companion is safe and both are now just clouds like you and ferried like you but not visited like you i am visiting you to thank you for taking the prince and your inclinations were well imparted and grown that you should say yes willingly by his will and keep the prince well i tell you now as the messenger i am that he will be returned but not for some years and in those some years he is yours to protect to raise through the time born of your great decision and never fear never doubt that the decision was great was good to him who judges good my beloved joanna in the hands i have never nor ever had i hold you and your things all to ferry you by his command and my liking yet i wonder may i ask do you have a stocking cap in your pack to wear when you are flesh again as a tail from your head and striped or baubled or brimmed with fur since i do like a stocking cap on the head of your kind since it reminds me of comets and those i adore and so here i am as i have said allied with this comet but no i see here just a hat in your pack never mind oh yes oh my oh yes i know the lord is here too i knew that on the instant and how blessed i am to hold him whom i have always beheld but i am a creature like you and in my thoughts are small things and an adam or eve in a stocking cap just simply delights me it does so i laugh so you laugh and my delight is unlike that of some of my siblings but then we are indeed each a species unique and so it was not i who announced to our lady nor i who stood at the tomb yet somehow i merited this visit and message or else i was already here at this my comet and so be it i will do well enough as i do what he wills and be joyous joanna i do see your grief so turn from it now for you shall see your parents again and in life you will love the untutored prince and we each have our place in his thoughts as we are sent canto 37 helen wondered if there were any clouds at all .