[Urianger had not stopped wishing for Ithaqua’s safe return, but he also tried to prepare himself for the possible reality that a safe return does not mean a happy one.
When he passes into the manor’s entryway and finds Ithaqua there, battered and bloody, he discovers that there really was no preparing.]
Ithaqua. [He quashes the fear trying to rise in his throat and withdraws his star globe.] Ithaqua—
no subject
When he passes into the manor’s entryway and finds Ithaqua there, battered and bloody, he discovers that there really was no preparing.]
Ithaqua. [He quashes the fear trying to rise in his throat and withdraws his star globe.] Ithaqua—
[He hasn’t even noticed the stones. Not yet.]