The Longest Journey Chapter 2

In which Rickie leads his friends to a beloved dell near Cambridge, a sanctuary both physical and spiritual amid the waxing and waning of youth, where conversation turns to the complexities of friendship and the divisions within their college society. He then unfolds to them the intimate story of his upbringing, marked by loneliness, parental estrangement, and the early deaths that shape his solitary character with a tender mixture of candour and reticence.