"I found Teja murdered and Charlie quickly bleeding out into the snow, in the forest." The flat tonelessness of the voice continues unabated. "The rest of my afternoon and night were spoken for, after that."

After carrying the bleeding Charlie to the infirmary to make sure he would live, and bringing in Teja's body, Yrael hadn't left off searching the forest until the following noon. The suit had been forgotten.

Yrael drains what is left in his current glass of Atlantean.