She kept her eyes on his hands on her own, scraped and dirty knuckles set like an anchor against her hardly cleaner skin. She couldn't speak for a time after, losing herself in her own memories of flame and terror, feeling her heart catch in her throat as her thoughts created an unbidden and unwanted image of Thalen and her girls in that inferno. She could hear their screams.
K'piru blinked back tears and realized she had curled forward so that her forehead pressed against her and K'ile's hands. She could feel herself shaking but didn't know how to stop it. "It burned here, too. So many. I don't... I don't understand what it was," she whispered. "Or why it... it took my... Azeyma's forsaken us, K'ile. If she--if she ever watched over us at all."
K'piru blinked back tears and realized she had curled forward so that her forehead pressed against her and K'ile's hands. She could feel herself shaking but didn't know how to stop it. "It burned here, too. So many. I don't... I don't understand what it was," she whispered. "Or why it... it took my... Azeyma's forsaken us, K'ile. If she--if she ever watched over us at all."
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