[The tiniest sob escapes her, though not one out of sadness. The relief she feels is palpable, so much so that it manifests around them, several flowers blooming across the canopy of dead, barren branches over their heads, and her arms come up to wrap around him in return, and she squeezes, hard, not letting up as she, for the first time today, lets those emotions take hold.

That fear and doubt that she felt so strongly through all of this that she'd swallowed down for his sake... but now that she has him here, safe and with her, it's a little less scary.]

I saw us... I saw us in those two, and I couldn't... I know it's wrong. I know I shouldn't make choices like that for others, but I remembered what it was like.

[Is it so wrong? Is she just projecting her own feelings onto the creatures?

Did the kirin really wish for an end like Eustace had back then? She thought, in the moment, that she was making the right choice, but the further she got from it all, the more she started to wonder, and the more she wanted to run away from that feeling.]