Ankyra Sound a blackout oath i swore and meant but couldn't conjure up again

He lifted his head to her, watched as she wrenched the ice free and brought it back to him.  So Rusalka was still together, even if it wasn't here — at least, he thought he could infer such from her response.  He paused for a long while as he thought of what she said.

He cast a glance to the cliffs, then back to her.  I suppose it does, doesn't it?  Dragoncrest would always mean something to him.... but Drageda's claim is elsewhere.  Fleetingly he thinks that if they have moved on, so should he.  

(but for now, he cannot move on.)

He took the ice in his jaws and cracked it, swallowing it almost in too-big pieces that made his saltstung throat hurt even more.  He choked for a second but it passed quickly, and once he had swallowed it he finally said, Thank you for helping me.