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the topic changes then and praimfaya blinks mercurial gaze towards mahler as he inquires as to whether she remembers astraeus. praimfaya was never particularly close with any of the children of sagtannet but she remembers the boy well enough. she looked back upon their only real conversation with a fuzzy edge of fondness; for he’d been terribly young and interested in her killmarks. sha, she affirms in trigedasleng. i remember him. he was interested in my killmarks and i spoke to him about being a warrior. whether or not his interest had been fleeting was left unknown to her.

praimfaya suspects there is reason why mahler brings him up now with her and naturally, her instinct is to assume some sort of worst-case scenario.

why? she inquires in soft tone; trying not to let her ( understandably ) morbid imagination get the best of her.