Ellis is quiet for a long stretch after that, watching the fire. The tea is still warm, but he doesn't sip it. He is thinking of what he and Richard have been haphazardly collecting. Of what might become of that. Of what Ellis will need to do, where he will need to go. He will need to make the arrangements for that soon.
While he sits and ponders, Adrasteia finishes her tea, and pours herself another cup.
"I don't know. I'd like to imagine they would, but there's no way to be certain."
After all, the letter wasn't a call for help, exactly. More of an apology, and a means of finding the person who'd been leading the matter, she thinks.
"I think, if we were to try, we'd have to get them away from the human they're with first."
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All these people, gone. Ruined. Dead.
Ellis is quiet for a long stretch after that, watching the fire. The tea is still warm, but he doesn't sip it. He is thinking of what he and Richard have been haphazardly collecting. Of what might become of that. Of what Ellis will need to do, where he will need to go. He will need to make the arrangements for that soon.
"Would they talk to us, if we could find them?"
A no wouldn't surprise him.
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"I don't know. I'd like to imagine they would, but there's no way to be certain."
After all, the letter wasn't a call for help, exactly. More of an apology, and a means of finding the person who'd been leading the matter, she thinks.
"I think, if we were to try, we'd have to get them away from the human they're with first."