Redtail Rise bridal ballad

He knew. He knew she would know. And old insecurities had still overtaken him. She would have faced death. Prophet, Augur, most others he knew would have faced it in his mind. But he’d been a coward and taken his anger on the search instead.

More guilt wouldn’t help now. He was back, and she was back, and he needed to be here. Ashlar tried to let it go, but he knew it would bother him for a while to come.

Lilia? What happened? He hadn’t noticed, or maybe just assumed she’d gone off the same way Prophet did. The way Avicus said it implied there was more involved.