He didn't want to talk about this. He had been doing... well, he hadn't been doing fine, but he'd been dealing with it, and he was almost to the point where he didn't have to deal with it-and he couldn't stand the way people talked about it.

"Would you all stop talking about this sort of thing as though people who leave are dead?" he said, more snappishly than he probably intended. "It's not even remotely like that."