Lunise stroked her thumb over Meesei's wrist to comfort her. "That is most unenviable," she said after a pause. She looked down and around, hesitating. "I will not force you to speak of the detail, but I am trying to understand what happened. What did that book do to you? And how did your pack help you?"

After spending the rest of the day dealing with Lunise's arrogant public face that she put on for the others, her genuinely concerned tone here was alike to a different person.

"I was unaware that your progress against Vile's gas weapons came from a third Daedric prince," she added.