I've come to think of my infirmary shifts as holding your place until the nighttime. Looking after your things while you're away. The way a person's presence lingers where they spend much of their time—I've grown accustomed to it. And to the frogs and what-else.
[ a lengthy silence follows. one might imagine he's made good on that threat, cut the crystal off — save for the occasional clambor of distant feet, the scratch of a pen on parchment.
[While the returning pause isn't as long, it is truly quiet—no shuffling, no pen, no breath—and so his departure is marked only by the dimming of the crystal's light.]
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I've come to think of my infirmary shifts as holding your place until the nighttime. Looking after your things while you're away. The way a person's presence lingers where they spend much of their time—I've grown accustomed to it. And to the frogs and what-else.
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Hold your own place, Leander.
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