Tao blinked up at them. “You…you came after me? To Margrave?” She’d absorbed very little of Kina’s explanation and was still stuck on the basic fact that they were here, with her, in the Guildtower of Margrave. “Did the fever affect her mind, do you think?” said Silt to the others in an undertone. At Tao, he smiled encouragingly, and said in exaggeratedly loud and slow speech, “Yes, Tao. We are your friends. We came to get you.”
