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[enkidoh]

i have done so. i wrapped the shards in a blanket and put them on top of one of the closets. i would not want the animals to wound themselves.

perhaps they did not give her the time to say goodbye. her last note to me is that i could return to her if the clothes she made me would not fit.

she probably expected to stay. but perhaps, for a human, it is better to be at the place they call their home.

[But it is difficult to focus on the relief she must feel and they wonder if she'd remember them. This place, the friends she made and that one friend she longed for.]

thank you. i will look after them. they provide a good distraction.

[fulgency]

It is my understanding that those who leave this place do not do so if their own choosing. I do not imagine Caren was anticipating leaving.

[enkidoh]

perhaps a summon. like our master has summoned us but can let us return to the throne just the same.

it is something beyond our control.

[And maybe that is the problematic part of it all...]

[fulgency]

That is one way to think of it, I suppose.

[enkidoh]

perhaps. it is difficult to name this. or understand.

[A couple of minutes later.]

i will make sure the vase will be repaired.

[fulgency]

You needn't trouble yourself over the vase, Enkidu. Spend your time with the sphinxes and I shall attend to the vase when I am home.

[Not that Ozymandias can't be empathetic toward the desire of wanting to occupy one's time with anything other than dwelling in the loss.]