"You think that we abandon first," Esselk'ti pointed out when Rhys said that he needed to set things right before asking for help. "Not betray. Not true betray. Still family. Can still ask help," she said.
"I'm glad you feel that way," he said, giving her a smile filled with warmth and hope that he'd only just begun to feel. "You said that you're the fastest in the water. I want to know if you can swim upriver to bring my daughter a message. To tell her… tell her that I love her, that I'm coming for her and her sister, and that I hope," he said, trailing off as a lump formed in his throat.
"I hope she knows that her sister loves her," Rhys said. "Just as much as her mother and I love her. And that, no matter what happened, we'll always be family. Family that, when the time comes, will march at her side to kill Owain Lothian."
