I did. Not one worked. [She sighs and presses her arms around her waist.] I should have known they would not on him, especially when even a god could not bring him back.

In the end he came back the same way I did and fulfilled his own wishes. He did not need me at all and when we encountered each other, I learned the truth from him.

[From the hitch in her voice and the bitterness, it must have been recently.]