To give it up is agony. It feels like death. But Wildeer never mocks the weeping seeker. He simply waits. For he knows that a person carrying the weight of their past cannot step into a future that has not yet been written.
His lantern is always lit. His question is always the same. the gatekeeper wildeer
Because a gate that opens for everyone protects nothing. And a threshold that costs nothing changes nothing. To give it up is agony