Daine frowns as it belatedly occurs to her that he might be having as rough a time in the waking world as he is here. What's happening to him? What could send a demi-god into such a state?

Does Romac still have him?

She adds a few more feathers to the growing pile in front of him, her hand shaking. "You got away, didn't you?" she asks. Not that he seems to remember anything, but this is important. "You're not still in one of their cages...?" She knew she'd been wrong to forget him. Mithros, what if he's still trapped there? This is all her fault.

She's automatically reaching for another feather when he tells her to stop, and then she fists her hands in her lap. "I should've helped you," she says miserably.