T'drissi nodded and smiled sadly, [i]"It would be a nice thing to hear from you again. T'drissi regrets that cannot provide you an address, but if you try to send something to Leyawiin, we will try to find it."[/i]

Gallus decided to wrap things up then. He stepped forward and gave Pudaga a firm handshake and a hand on his shoulder, and then hugged the others in the family. Afterwards, he tried to be sensitive to the weight of the situation while still emphasising their limited time. "We should head off now, Meesei," he mentioned, "Good luck, all of you. I wish you all the best."

With that, they made their way upstairs.

"No, no," Tzirret affirmed as he lightly took Ma'tanza's hand and turned it palm up. Everything seemed so difficult to do. He was fighting an overwhelming desire to back off, and it was showing in anxious body language. "It is just that...well, Tzirret has never been good at keeping secrets, even his own. He has...been...fascinated by-...no..." Tzirret stumbled over his words. He stopped to take a breath, "He wants you to have something important. Because there was a promise he made to someone a while ago that he needs to keep." He took his hand out of his pocket with the pendant, but it was hidden in his palm apart from the leather cord. "He means to say...that-"

"Tzirret! Ma'tanza!" Gallus' voice echoed through the chapel as he came up the stairs.

Tzirret's head snapped to attention, looking to Gallus with almost panicked surprise.

"We're leaving," Gallus beckoned them both.

Suddenly looking incredibly defeated, Tzirret let Ma'tanza's hand go and put the pendant back in his pocket without showing it to her. He slowly stepped to join the rest. "N-nevermind. It can wait," he mumbled sullenly with his ears pulled back.