"Still in slow retreat.  Should the Black Triune come forth, our alliances have been laid in advance.  Keltham has been paid his agreed-on fee and is safely ensconced in his newly Forbidden fortress, and no Sendings may come to his section there."

"All you need to do, for a time, is rest.  I hope we've been intimate enough that I can say that it's not a threat to fear, and not an order from your Queen to drop everything and follow, when I say this much:  I put a lot of work into breaking you, in hopes you would heal into a less broken shape than you once had.  If you fall helplessly back into your old shape I'll be disappointed.  I think that if dath ilan were Evil they would not make their Evil out of hollow shells of people.  And it would be genuinely difficult to do this to you a second time, so please, don't try to put yourself together again, not in the same shape as before.  I say that so early, while you ought to just be bawling, because I am afraid you will try to twist yourself up while you're bawling."

"Rest.  Rest.  You did well."

Abrogail's hands seem to be stroking Carissa's hair, while she's curled up and crying.

"Still in slow retreat.  Should the Black Triune come forth, our alliances have been laid in advance.  Rugatonn is alive and there is no actual reason to believe the Black Triune could do that to her, more so with their god sealed and ours in unopposed glory.  Keltham has been paid his agreed-on fee and is safely ensconced in his newly Forbidden fortress, and no Sendings may come to his section there."

"All you need to do, for a time, is rest.  I hope we've been intimate enough that I can say that it's not a threat to fear, and not an order from your Queen to drop everything and follow, when I say this much:  I put a lot of work into breaking you, in hopes you would heal into a less broken shape than you once had.  If you fall helplessly back into your old shape I'll be disappointed.  I think that if dath ilan were Evil they would not make their Evil out of hollow shells of people.  And it would be genuinely difficult to do this to you a second time, so please, don't try to put yourself together again, not in the same shape as before.  I say that so early, while you ought to just be bawling, because I am afraid you will try to twist yourself up while you're bawling."

"Rest.  Rest.  You did well."

Abrogail's hands seem to be stroking Carissa's hair, while she's curled up and crying.

"Still in slow retreat.  Should the Black Triune come forth, our alliances have been laid in advance.  Rugatonn is alive and there is no actual reason to believe the Black Triune could do that to her, more so with their god sealed and ours in unopposed glory.  Keltham has been paid his agreed-on fee and is safely ensconced in his newly Forbidden fortress, and no Sendings may come to his section there."

"All you need to do, for a time, is rest.  I hope we've been intimate enough that I can say that it's not a threat to fear, and not an order from your Queen to drop everything and follow, when I say this much:  I put a lot of work into breaking you, in hopes you would heal into a less broken shape than you once had.  If you fall helplessly back into your old shape I'll be disappointed.  I think that if dath ilan were Evil they would not make their Evil out of hollow shells of people.  And it would be genuinely difficult to do this to you a second time, so by my command, don't try to put yourself together again, not in the same shape as before.  I say that so early, while you ought to just be bawling, because I am afraid you will try to twist yourself up while you're bawling."

"Rest.  Rest.  You did well."

Abrogail's hands seem to be stroking Carissa's hair, while she's curled up and crying.