She supposed that there was always at least one last day of any journey.
That sounded like some kind of weird, meaningless philosophical comment but. It was also just literally true.
No matter how long a journey, so long as it was a journey, there would always be that last day before the return trip.
She wasn't quite sure how she felt about this one.
She hadn't been able to prepare for it at all. When she'd first arrived in Ceiori she hadn't had a hard time frame for the negotiations, but she expected a maximum of about a week's stay in Ceiori.
Then suddenly they'd been arrested by Caoimhe as a part of her plot to shift the blame of the murder of her own father off of her onto strangers she held an irrational grudge against.
The time in Ceiori immediately transformed from 'less or equal to than the time it took to arrive in Ceiori' to 'Months of containment, stretching on indefinitely as Caoimhe continues to push things in to a potential war.