Sabine's pause was to collect herself before continuing. Ri'vashi's interruption threw Sabine momentarily off. She tried to respond with five points at once that all depended on one another for context and ended up saying nothing. In frustration, she almost raised her voice. Meesei had encouraged her to be assertive here.

She locked Ri'vashi's eyes, breathed in and spoke as level as she could. "I am not finished, Ri'vashi." She stared intensely into her eyes for another few seconds. "Please."

"Go on, Sabine," Vera said, gesturing forward. She did not indicate being convinced by Sabine's reasoning, though neither did she refute Ri'vashi's reasoning.

Sniffing back her emotion, Sabine cast her eyes down again. "I wanted the pain to stop, so I used the staff. I healed everything on my body. I was still...so angry and scared. They tried to attack. I threw two of them away with magic. I think one ran away. I made a ward so I could be safe but they did not attack. I told them where the book came from. Everything still hurt, even with the healing magic. When Yerig admitted they may have been mislead, when he tried to calm me down, Arinette recovered. She shouted that I was lying. Yerig protested. Do'rhajul was not convinced by Arinette either. He said he had been stonewalled and kept from secrets with Vile's priesthood. Arinette lost patience and struck Yerig down with a lightning spell. They were about to fight, but...I was so angry. Angry at her. I picked her up with magic and would have torn her apart, layer by layer. I could have done it. Then...I saw her face. And I felt my beast spirit. Cowering. It does not cower. Not since long ago. So I released her. But they kept trying to fight Do'rhajul, all of them. I started crying and rendered all of them but Do'rhajul unconscious. I did not want to happen what happened. I tried to make it right. So I went to Yerig and made his heart beat again. Then Do'rhajul surrendered."

In a similar voice, Sabine recounted everything of import from the following few days. Everything from the details of Do'rhajul's pact, his lost former life, her conversations with Yerig and Do'rhajul, taking the prisoners to the Daggerfall clan, and the entire process of defeating the dragon. She told no lies or misleading statements, though she curiously referred to Do'rhajul as 'Rhajul' from when he surrendered. She also omitted explaining her reasoning for allowing Yerig and Do'rhajul to help her defeat the dragon or why exactly she did not immediately return home after they capitulated. Other details, such as her dependence on the staff for comfort and the other lasting effects of her trauma were also left out.