[ That... is not something he'd been expecting, and the horrible part of it is he knows who Sorrel's speaking of. ]

Inessa... told me of a woman who'd suffered as much. [ when they'd spoken of the shards and how the natives sometimes come by them. at the time, while the story was a sad one, he hadn't spared too much thought to the woman. a nameless entity, connected to nothing he was familiar with. a certain guilt fills him now. ]

I'm deeply sorry for your loss, my friend. It's a tragic, terrible way to have lost her life.

[ one she wouldn't have suffered, if Corypheus hadn't started all this, brother the Rifters through, perhaps even if a Rifter had been there to close it before she suffered the shard. ]