[Somehow he manages to keep his calm enough to reply to the public part of this.]

I can bridge the divides, but I cannot de-infiltrate. I would like to learn.

[The private part, however, is another story:]

Gone? Are you-- [He sends his mind out to find her. Naoki is right. She is gone.]

Kushiel's rod!




... thank you for telling us privately, so we did not need to learn from one of those ghoulish lists of the disappeared.