( this is not a conversation she ever thought she'd have, but it's.. necessary, in its own way, if they are to coexist here. it was bound to come up, and they'll likely need to rely on one another in the trials that are sure to come.

their people's entwined fate is an impossible cruelty, and still her heart breaks for him. he's the one faced with the very evidence of their loss. )

I'd hardly make so bold a claim. We know of them, but we were also left with something more than a handful of memories. ( her glance lands her gaze back towards the door, out towards where thancred still wanders. ) There are the few that survived, and I likely need not say what their motivations might be in the wake of seeing everything they knew unravel.