Nod.

She'll just sleep, then.

- she can't actually get to sleep and after some amount of trying she sits up.

He's taking the longest watch since the casters need their spells back as fast as possible.

"Pretty bad in there?"

"It's not great. Probably worse out here."

"Sometimes killing stuff is less terrifying than hiding from it. 

- do you want a hug."

- nodnod.

He walks over to her bunk and picks her up and sets her on his lap and hugs her. 

Hug.

She hasn't had a hug that made her feel protected in - gods, more than ten years now. It's nice. Everything is horrible and they're not safe at all and a bunch of insane world-destroying cultists have her niece, but this is nice.

...she waits until she feels like she's gotten a lot of whatever her brain is crying out for before saying, "Thought you weren't allowed to do that."

Snort. "I am super not allowed to do this. - dunno if it's evil or just lawless, though. Doesn't feel evil."

"Pretty sure it's not evil. People'd do it more in Cheliax if it was."

Giggle. 

She smiles weakly, hugs him a little more, and then lets go.

"...thank you."

"How'd you escape when they found you -"

"Jumped out of the rope trick with Verita, broke a leg and possibly some other stuff, crawled through the snow until I found you."

" - wow."

"Couldn't think of anything else to do."

Nod. "'m sorry we dragged you into this. Could've just - stayed."

"I'm sorry I didn't try to get Verita not to try to do this. Or to wait, at least."

"I thought about asking her to. But - Fazil and Mahdi are gonna retire, and I don't know when she'd have - this kind of resources - again. Not that it - well, we'll see if it's enough."

"Yeah.

"I should - probably sleep. I guess."

Nod. 

He goes back to his bunk.

She sleeps. This time it works.

When she wakes up in the morning there's a bit of a commotion; the three of them are talking heatedly in Osirian.

She... sits up and stares at them to see if they are going to include her in this conversation in any way.

"Imrainai," he says tiredly. "Did a scry. We know where we're going. - also, Abadar gave me the ability to cast Breath of Life and Raise Dead. We - aren't sure what that means. She was alive, in the scry."

"It probably just means he noticed we are getting into a lot of fights lately."