Lost Creek Hollow she's so high

His question was answered only indirectly, and he found a shiver running down his spine as she started to describe it. It did sound terrible indeed, but to say such a thing when the storyteller had just mentioned that no words do it justice just didn't seem right. Nikai frowned as he listened silently. It must've been an awful thing to witness. She'd survived somehow but it sounded like others had not. It seemed that, though he'd not come to find the ruddy girl nor Rannoch here, fate had brought him here to listen to Sarah's story because she needed to tell someone. Nikai's experience was that someone that didn't know you was in some cases the best listener.

He let silence linger between them while he let the words settle in. They walked in silence for a bit.

That's awful, that you had to experience such a thing, Nikai said eventually. There wasn't much more he felt he could say.