[helaena could walk through a hundred worlds and she would not be rid of her brothers. she is not sure that she entirely wants to be, but it would be nice to have a little time apart.

it is easy for her to talk to aegon, even if it is not always enjoyable.

she gazes at him dispassionately.]

You look well.

[she looks back at the biscuits.]

I do not want to eat them anymore.

[they are the wrong shape to be any part of a cricket, but there is an undeniably....chitinous sheen.]

It's strange. The biscuits haven't changed at all, only what is said about them.