[She doesn't mind that he needs the time to... try to process it. If she hadn't seen him with her own eyes, she'd be wary to believe it herself. But she had. She had, and she's hugged him and he was solid and real and whole and alive. Improbably. Impossibly. But it was real, she knows it down into the marrow of her bones.]

I do not understand it, either... it is just this place. Somehow, it... brought him back.

Yes. It is what he remembers last. I think... I think my reaction confirmed what happened.

[That, maybe, there had been a shred of doubt that it was truly his end, until he'd seen her face making all the emotions she couldn't stop it from making at seeing his face, and feeling his solidness under her hands. It wasn't fair, and she blinks back tears she knows Jesper cannot see, but she feels the need to hide from him all the same.]

Maybe I should leave this place... come there.

[The idea twists in her stomach. She likes it in Solvunn, she likes Mr. Stark and she likes Himeka and she had liked Estinien. She likes the people. But if her people are going to keep showing up in that city... ]