"Thank you."

It seems inadequate, given what he did for her yesterday, but in some aspects, she doesn't regret it. She got the chance to say goodbye to him rather than the deluded monster the curse turned him into, and she knows, consciously that she needs to hold on to that. She hugged him goodbye and walked out the door and Kieran died. Everything that came after was something else.

If only she could actually convince herself of that, focus on that, not the flashes that kept echoing through her mind.

"How long was I asleep?"