[ She'd be glad that she doesn't wholly understand Cheris' situation, or the fact that she isn't the only pair of eyes able to see past Vex's carefully constructed front. Something she keeps up regardless of how useless it may be given present company, smoothing fingers across the words carved into the dark green wood. ]

Did he? [ The smile comes easily. ] Well, it is something of a habit of ours.

[ Never dying and staying dead. Though this time she thought they might, she truthfully thought that it was the end for them─ Until she woke up in a tube filled with red liquid and spent a week vomiting black goo all over the place. ]

No, you are right. It was a poor match from the start and we were careless. I thought us capable and I was wrong. [ Maybe it would have been different had Percy come with them, but that isn't a thought she wants to entertain. ]

Survive. Make sure my idiot brother survives this, and Percy too. Why do you ask?

[ Guess who also has high as hell Perception that isn't centuries-old and looks hella fine? She is sure this visit is more than a social call. ]