Sina nods sadly in response, then follows with "yes, of course." It hasn't been that long.
As if on cue, Keeper Thalia's voice rings out in a similar voiceless echo. Above all, your duty is to your clan. Do not pledge yourself to this shem'len cause unless they are willing and able to return to us you, our First, in good health and uncorrupted by their influence.

Sina's face is dreamy and sad, her gaze raised upward as though the source of the feeling is a taller person addressing her. "I have failed to be in good health," she observes, then looks at River. "Am I corrupted?"