The comment drew her up short. They weren't so very close that she'd ever imagine Lucanis might express a vulnerability like that so candidly. With her mouth twisting into a worried frown, Bellara turned back to him fully this time. "Whatever it is, I don't think you'll sound crazy." The last few weeks and months had been nothing but the impossible happening, day after day.

"And if it doesn't make sense...we'll figure it out. Right?" Rook would say that if she was here, she knew. Maybe Bellara couldn't play up into the same sure confidence of it, but the sentiment was still there.