Vajra was having trouble parsing what she’d just said to him. It was so far beyond the norm that it Just didn’t make sense. Was it a result of the hypothermia and trauma? The cloak was all she had left of her home, and somehow it had triggered some kind of delusion? That had to be it, she sounded crazy, and she’d never been crazy before. “Ardala, I need you to slow down and think about what you’re saying.”

“What is there to think about?” She looked at him, ...