"And I never took you for a fool-" A beat. "Oh, wait, I have."

Often at that. Down here with what they'd be digging through, with needing to be mobile and needing to have armor and tools on hand it will not break her heart to lose or burn afterward to avoid being blighted, she's dressed simply, the muslin of her robe falling in light folds around the brace she has strapped to her thigh.

"What do you want? I am not much in the mood for telling bedtime stories."