[Ethlyn gasps when Minato pulls the sword fully away. The world comes back into focus--the cobblestones, the sky, the normal sights and sounds of Aldrip.]
Deirdre...
[The name is drifting in her mind like the last shreds of a dream, but when she says it, it seems to fix itself like a stain. Deirdre. Her brother's wife. Her sister in all but blood.
She's gone. And it's Ethlyn's fault.]
Minato? [She squeezes her eyes shut and opened them again.] We're still in Aldrip?
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Deirdre...
[The name is drifting in her mind like the last shreds of a dream, but when she says it, it seems to fix itself like a stain. Deirdre. Her brother's wife. Her sister in all but blood.
She's gone. And it's Ethlyn's fault.]
Minato? [She squeezes her eyes shut and opened them again.] We're still in Aldrip?