All things take time. He made an impact while he was here... and those can be felt throughout the village. From the hearts he touched in one way or another.

... And while many of us will not meet him again, you know where he's gone and you know that he'll be waiting for you, where that is. Even if it's without the experiences here. And you can still miss him.

[If he came back without warning, that would be another story... and that also had happened before. But that wasn't important, now.]