Finally then..

Just for laughs!

...it seems, we have lost something valuable. We have to make up for our neglect and acknowledge it in ways that would have seemed inappropriate before…it is only when pressed to the extreme of experience that this least extreme of relations finds its voice, or when we are forced to consider what really matters, do we begin to consider what friendship is.

Everything is true, Aristotle seems to say, so long as it is never taken for anything more than it is.
Perhaps when genuine good feeling rises above jolly camaraderie or devious influence, and an admiration develops for character over professional achievement, then a virtual spiral of regard can blossom into friendship.  - Andrew Sullivan

In conclusion, the bard wishes good luck to the seeker and asks that he keep safe and flourish in another land where other stories await, hopeful of taking shape.