crozier doesn’t answer as little is too far gone to understand. he will die within a day or two. instead, crozier sits beside little and puts edward's head on his shoulder. he’ll wait with him, as long as it takes. this is the end of the line.
lady silence watches this grim western spectacle a moment, and then turns away.
"Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious." ― Michel de Montaigne
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