So we won't be able to recover it.

[ There go any hopes she had at removing the mark from herself, too. She frowns. uncertain how she wants to proceed with this information. ]

He... I guess he thought he was escaping us somehow and then found us all here, so he returned.

[ Which doesn't make it any easier to cope with. ]

I think-- I think he called me vhenan when he saw me. But he wouldn't tell me why. He looked like he'd seen a ghost when I saw him.