[It had been easy to imagine Liem dead, because she has seen it twice already. In the forest of Alenroux she had groped half-blind for him, blood in her one remaining eye, calling out for him and receiving only silence until she found his sharp shard in the crimson and rotted root-slick grass. In the tunnels beneath the Great Tree, impaled on a blade, dust before she could even catch him where he fell.
But.
She is still angry, even though his words might mollify another. And she still things-]
... You should still have taken someone. Even if they only waited nearby. Even if it were not me.
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But.
She is still angry, even though his words might mollify another. And she still things-]
... You should still have taken someone. Even if they only waited nearby. Even if it were not me.