why were you digging, what did you bury?

A better sleuth might have caught the subtle signs that Caiaphas was breaking, but Kevlyn was far too dense and too little to see them. To him, she was unmoving, flawless in her acting. She could be nominated for an award, for surely no one played dead better than she. It was a shame for poor Kevlyn, though, who truly believed she was gone.

And so he started up with a high, piercing wail and doubled his efforts by shoving harder and even attempting to clamber onto her shoulders like when he'd been kidnapped. Caiaphas was not only Kevlyn's only link to home, but also his only link to Ankyra Sound. It seemed whether he looked forward or backward, these parts of his life were unreachable in her absence. She couldn't die, not without first setting Kevlyn on one or the other path.