For Our Sakes

'Surely, it is for the dead we find ourselves silent here before our King as we march onward into fate.'

Her despair had evaporated at the spirit's presence, but the fact that Avera had seen him also intrigued her. Knowing him was one thing, but seeing their spectral friend was entirely another, and to hear him... that was something very rare, indeed.

'Perhaps, she is a seer, as well, then. Though, she may not know it. He did lead her to us, and she did speak with him as I do. I saw and heard it. Eliezer cannot see; he merely senses, but he knows him when he comes.'

She stopped in her stride and turned to her friend. "Eliezer," she said, admiringly.

He paused, turning to her with an affectionate smile and inquiring eyes. "Yes, my dear?"

She smiled back at him, her heart filled with a loving warmth. "I'm sorry... about before," she said, addressing him with a heartfelt apology for her prior response to his comforting reassurance of good.