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They've left him alone in his cell.
He can't really be said to be lucid but he has very acute instincts for when there's someone and when he's alone - it's the last of his senses to depart him - and he's alone.
And then suddenly he isn't.
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lurkingkobold
She's amusedly exasperated. Nope.
She does a quick circuit of the cave to make sure everything's in place, gathers up the things she'll need to make and serve the meal, and then goes to get Findekáno.
lurkingkobold
Yeah, it's fine. They're pushing themselves, but they want to. She offers her hand.
lurkingkobold
And here they are in the cave, rather farther from Maitimo than she usually appears. She waits a moment to let go of Findekáno's hand.
"I didn't burn the ships. I swear I would have stopped him if I'd seen any way at all. I am so, so sorry."
"It's much too late but I had to say it anyway. You should have heard how I said it in the first hallucination, I was so impassioned -"
neither-power-nor-glory
"...love you and probably never want to be involved with you again. Since the kobold said you were worried."
lurkingkobold
She watches this carefully; when Maitimo flinches, so does she. She waits for a second, after he relaxes, and then gets started making dinner.
neither-power-nor-glory
"Is it more reassuring for me to sit here not turning into the Enemy before your eyes or for me to leave."