Redsand Canyon Bane

He didn’t know her. He was a stranger, and there was something liberating in knowing that in a few weeks his opinion wouldn’t matter. More likely than not she’d be gone.

She didn’t need his pity. Or his reassurances.

It’s yours. I won’t be needing it after the Imperator returns. It was likely none of them would be staying, but even more likely still she’d part ways and the rest would follow him East.

As though he deserved their loyalty. Only her family would know why he was gone.

You can leave it to grow over, for all I care. But you at least might be able to get some use from it. When she left, this time she wouldn’t be taking anything with her but her son. She wouldn’t make the same mistakes again.