Seeing Kaleeth getting nervous prompted Janius to slide off his shield and take her shoulder to reassure her. The lift was, all things considered, steady and sure. Nevertheless, even descending slowly was unnerving.

The first reactions to Saras were mild confusion. Janius in particular pointed and looked left and right as if he was at once trying to work out how he did it and was about to ask outright.

Fendros, not being as outwardly confused, blinked and looked to Meesei after Saras answered. "Well..." He rolled a shoulder. "He does have a point."

"The lift." Sabine spoke, "Did you know that it worked?"

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Gallus' grin lowered into a sympathetic smile. "You really are too nice, aren't you?" he said with his head angled to one side. Gallus offered his empty hand in a gesture. "Look, it's alright to feel guilty, I won't say that it's not, but..." Gallus twisted his mouth against his right cheek and tsked. "There's a point where you've got to hold your thoughts about helping others and think about how you should be treating yourself. It sounds like you're doing a fine job beating yourself up about all this. It's no wonder that you had trouble getting out of bed. Do you really think that's..." Gallus stopped himself before he used the word helpful. "...Is stopping to feel guilty about what you can't control really what's best for [i]you?[/i]"