"Y-Yes."

It was a flash, a memory that never was, so real that it was almost like the Echo. It brought her to pause. Even if things had turned out all right this time...

Her appetite was gone. She sighed, and she only barely managed to make herself finish before picking up her bowl and setting it aside. They could take their dishes to be cleaned later, but for now...

"Just... We'll pull out if we need to. Meat's nice, but it's not worth too much risk, right? You're still needed here."

Was that what she wanted to say? She didn't know. It partly was, but it partly wasn't. She wanted to say more, to emphasize just how much she didn't want to go through such a terrifying thing again. That he mattered, that she almost lost him, that she...

Damn it. It was something she hadn't wanted to face, but the near miss was enough for her to realize just what she was feeling. But she couldn't bring herself to say it, either. It was hard enough to try and voice exactly what she did want in that moment of respite.

"Will... Will you sit with me by the fire? If you're not busy."