{how the body feels absence}

Her body perceived his absence most acutely: her eyes, so used to darting in his direction constantly, filled with disappointment at the sight of empty air where he usually stood; her lips, often fighting the impulse to curve upwards, no longer had a friend’s face to smile at; her ears, skilled in tuning in to a specific tone and timbre, could not hear that voice to which they were so accustomed. Now that he was absent, her senses, lost in the loss, only served to remind her of the devoted and extreme attention which she had paid him over so many years.