[ He can read between the lines, the inflections of things left unsaid. As much as she tries to softens things she knows he'll pick up on things. The dragon, Grog's herd, the corrupted Archfey, things she doesn't go into in part because she doesn't have to or want to. ]

You can't save everyone, darling. [ A lesson Vex felt they all learned the hard way the day the dragons attacked Emon. ] You were trying to save Keyleth, there wasn't any way you or I... [ For a moment her voice hitches, emotion tries to sneak in. ] We couldn't have made it to him in time.

[ She shifts, pressing her head against his; a soft headbutt. ]

We took him back to Whitestone, to Pike, she brought him back to us. He's alive, and he knows he is alive. I told him about it after we got here.