“Wait.”

She’s sworn the highest oath she can, without being asked to. Her credibility in this matter is above reproach, and they must follow her quickly if they are to survive this. And yet.

“I have one more question, before we go.”

One question still eats at him. In no answer he can imagine can he see the sense in it. Or, rather. No answer settles his unsettled heart.

“You knew the Housekeeper lived like this. Why didn’t you do anything?”

Please. Can you explain it to him, Thellis Thist, Eater of the Dead?