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“I’m sorry…”

Nithel’s heart rent, and he took another step closer.

Alessio was so tight, the pain and fear rippling off him making it hard for Nithel to breathe.

“I’m sorry, I…”

Kasiin. He was like Kasiin when he’d made a mistake. But memory was bittersweet. The man had cursed me. The man had been a dear friend.

“have trouble with…with places that you can get trapped in…”

Nithel stopped a few steps away, letting the youth babble a bit more until he was silent, head lowered.

“ant eaziz” Nithel whispered, soft, pain in his eyes. But that was probably too dark to see.

“I am sorry. I do not like cold or wet places.” The past had happened. There was nothing to change it. Nithel waited a moment. “Should we leave them, or search together,” eaziziun wahid? At the last two mental words, Nithel’s demeanor softened. He didn’t know how they could fix things, not easily, but it was easier to move forward if one was moving.

He had a plan. But, Nithel could not tell his friend to do anything.

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