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“He’s going to die, you know,” Eblana observes. Her voice is cold with honesty. Not cruelty. A lot of people hear one as the other when she speaks, but Loughshinny, at least, should know better. Eblana is always trying to be honest. She never has to try to be cruel. “There’s no meaning in soothing a corpse.”
“He will,” Loughshinny agrees. Eblana hadn’t been sure if she would. Her sister has always had a habit of trying to deny reality, no matter how much Eblana has tried to shake it from her. First it was out of fear. Then it was out of hope. But it seems even hope is not enough to blind her here, in this nameless Ursus house over the body of this nameless Ursus man. “I want to help him anyway.”
(Years after the Red Dragon sacrifices herself for Tara, two Rhodes Island Operators who swore only to meet where death descends have a conversation over a corpse. How strange, then, that they end up talking about life instead.)