Which I originally posted on LJ last March:
"If you're friend, family, or loved one of any kind, then there is always someone with sword (both figurative and literal) and words on your side. Maybe he looks like a man, maybe he looks like a grizzly bear with a sword.
If you're my friend, I am your friend.
If I love you once, I love you always.
If I can help, I always will.
If I can't, I'll always be there to listen.
If that sounds a bit like a genre mission statement, you probably ought to know that I had to die a couple of times to get this way (but most of you know that already)."