She watches him as she goes, hating that she had to do this, because she knows the way the world can rear back and come at you from an angle you didn't expect. She didn't want to have to do it this way.

"Because it's getting bad," she says softly. "You aren't the only ones, either. We're trying to bring back as many as we can but Hesiod destroyed the Grasp. We had to do it the hard way."