[She laughs, moving onto the next one with something of a frustrated look when she feels no difference in the air besides just more heat from all of them, but she keeps her back turned to him.]
... It was because you were on your expedition.
[Benedikta remembers that day well. Remembers that crippling loneliness she felt, and how big and empty Stonhyrr felt while he was gone. Overwhelmingly so. It was not long after her eighteenth birthday, after they returned from their first trip to Dhalmekia. After she had already fallen in love with him.]
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... It was because you were on your expedition.
[Benedikta remembers that day well. Remembers that crippling loneliness she felt, and how big and empty Stonhyrr felt while he was gone. Overwhelmingly so. It was not long after her eighteenth birthday, after they returned from their first trip to Dhalmekia. After she had already fallen in love with him.]