It was cold. It was so cold, and Imliss was gone, and she was so tired...
She closed her eyes.
She hadn't been expecting to open them again.
It's been too long already--I'm not going to do anything stupid but I miss you so much--
She thanks the cartographer and leaves and finds a corner where no one will see her tears. I want to come home.
I was so cold--you can't understand it, I don't want you to, you can't without having been there--and then I had no idea where I was or what was going on and then there was a servant of the Enemy and then--the wolves--one of them got me in the abdomen, I probably would have died again if we hadn't turned and it hurt so much and the last time I saw you you were lying insensate with a dent in your skull and there was so much blood--
I love you.
I want to just tell myself that the scary things are almost certainly less scary than two fuck-off huge wolves but I don't actually know that...