[ Her throat illumines when Zack returns the gesture, and she does not pull away. She gleans much from such a simple thing. His emotional state, the state of his health. The Rejehejet'e are not telepathic in any shape, but eons of evolution narrowing their ability to read those around them makes it seem almost so. This close, most recruits display a fissure of fear. Zack does not. ]

It will take time. It is no easy feat to pull a Euugá apart. Warriorhead is very strong.

But it will not slow me down. The worst of it is passed.