"We were," Pushing hand into stone like he might punch through. "In quarantine."
Would've been. Illnesses come and go, and for the bad ones, the guard shuts them in. You isolate, if you can. Folks help, if they can. There wasn't any true infirmary, there sure weren't mage doctors. He knows these things. Just like he knows that —
"And she was, she'd passed," Because this story can't proceed any other way. He hunts for a corner that won't come: "So I went for help. Found Sister Tisiphone."
Where? Before or after? A human kid, the family business, he might've gotten through. Can't say if he needed to. Can't say if they'd cracked the gates to let her inside. His head twists, away from Gwen. It looks and sounds like he means to keep speaking. He doesn't.
The story ends there.
(Eventually, someone must have sat down with him, You aren't going back, they don't want you to come. Eventually, someone must have handed him a sword.)
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"We were," Pushing hand into stone like he might punch through. "In quarantine."
Would've been. Illnesses come and go, and for the bad ones, the guard shuts them in. You isolate, if you can. Folks help, if they can. There wasn't any true infirmary, there sure weren't mage doctors. He knows these things. Just like he knows that —
"And she was, she'd passed," Because this story can't proceed any other way. He hunts for a corner that won't come: "So I went for help. Found Sister Tisiphone."
Where? Before or after? A human kid, the family business, he might've gotten through. Can't say if he needed to. Can't say if they'd cracked the gates to let her inside. His head twists, away from Gwen. It looks and sounds like he means to keep speaking. He doesn't.
The story ends there.
(Eventually, someone must have sat down with him, You aren't going back, they don't want you to come. Eventually, someone must have handed him a sword.)