Alera is not a possession.

“Images of him continued to plague me, unbidden and cruelly tantalising: the mes…”

“What do you need?" I asked, sitting beside him and fumbling through the mishmas…”

“Pero nuestra separación forzosa sólo consiguió hacerme más consciente de que, e…”

“In the end, the best for which one could hope was to leave the world in better …”