Protected is a very different word from destroyed or closed; Adrasteia also notes, in the back of her quietly panicked mind, that gates implies that there is more than one of these.
She doesn't doubt Ellis' recounting of the Herald's dreams and what she's come to consider the geas of the dead woman to all of Riftwatch — to change the future or fall prey to its machinations. He moves, slightly, taking up space in her line of sight. It doesn't lessen her awareness of what's behind him, not when the darkness emits a lack of light that settles around Ellis' head like a halo.
But the next breath comes a little easier anyway.
"Then it has to be cleansed. A connection to the Fade directly is dangerous enough, but this?" She shakes her head, fingers of the hand still lingering on his upper arm curling inwards. "It can't be left like this."
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She doesn't doubt Ellis' recounting of the Herald's dreams and what she's come to consider the geas of the dead woman to all of Riftwatch — to change the future or fall prey to its machinations. He moves, slightly, taking up space in her line of sight. It doesn't lessen her awareness of what's behind him, not when the darkness emits a lack of light that settles around Ellis' head like a halo.
But the next breath comes a little easier anyway.
"Then it has to be cleansed. A connection to the Fade directly is dangerous enough, but this?" She shakes her head, fingers of the hand still lingering on his upper arm curling inwards. "It can't be left like this."