Kori was missing for the rest of the evening. Bae desperately wanted to go looking for him but neither Armel or Caspet thought that it was a good idea. They were insistent that he probably needed to be alone and remembering how she was when her mother died, she could hardly refute their logic. As Kumari, she had been unable to take the solace that she had at that time sought, but Kori could, and she would not deny it him.

So instead, she sat with everyone else around the campfire, ...