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Four – ?! [Her eyes widen and she begins to shake, overwhelmed by this piece of truth. How could she have been gone for so long and not realized it, it had been nearly half a year according to the calendar here. What had happened in all that time, who had arrived and who... has left?

That wasn't what mattered most, though. Mithos had been alone all that time, hadn't he?]

... I'm sorry! [How could she have allowed that to happen? It was a terrible thing that she had done.] I'm sorry, Mithos, I'm so sorry!