"Ahna? It's okay, it's okay, I'm here," Fendros' tired, but concerned voice spoke up before he sat up and wrapped his arms around her. Just like it was every time, she was drenched with sweat and had a pounding heart. Fendros rocked her in his arms, trying to comfort her. "Another nightmare?" Fendros asked rhetorically, "It was the torture again, wasn't it?"

Ahnasha's scar didn't seem like it was going to fade any further in the week since they had left the xanmeer, but other symptoms of the trauma seemed to only get worse for both of them. Whenever Ahnasha's dreams didn't wake Fendros up, Fendros would have flashbacks of his own, mostly recounting the torture as it happened. However, even if Fendros said he would talk, he either didn't seem to stop the Argonian noble cutting Ahnasha open, or more terrifyingly, his throat closed up completely and he couldn't so much as scream. In those occasions, their roles would be reversed and it would be Fendros weeping in Ahnasha's arms. Ahnasha's recounts of her nightmares seemed to be just as, if not more horrific, and no doubt they were only getting worse. Up until this point Fendros had naively believed that the dreams and the anxiety they were displaying in their day-to-day life would eventually go away, now they were at the point where the scars opened nearly every night.

"Ahna, I don't know what to do, but this can't go on." Fendros stated, as Rhazii began to squirm and make noises in the swaddle next to them both. Fendros released Ahnasha and picked Rhazii up, trying to shush him back to sleep before the disturbance caused him to cry. Fendros whispered from then on, "I can't keep doing this, Ahna. It still hurts. We have to do something. Whether it's finding a safe place to raise Rhazii, away from all this danger, or to talk to the Hist like Sabine did, I don't care, but we have to do something."

Up to that point, Fendros had been even less forthcoming with the events of the torture. He thought that he could eventually forget if he didn't talk about it, but that was wishful thinking as well. The pack had noticed his strange behaviour too, although they were probably asleep right then.