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"I could use a good distraction right about now, to be honest," you say as you go about making yourself presentable. "Maybe if I drown myself in my lessons, all of these thoughts will go away."

"I don't know if we should forget what we saw, Klel. We shouldn't live in fear of it, but we can't just let it go either. I don't know about you, but I'm not going to let that happen to me…." She shivers.

The walk to your lessons is a mostly silent one. The sky is clouded over and threatening to rain, mirroring your own dreary haze of confusion. You wonder if Lapu and Tiva will show up as well, both acting as though nothing is wrong. Now that you think about it, you actually have no idea if they made it home safely. You ask Dena, and she nods absently.

"Lapu jumped for Tiva right after I went for you. The two of you weren't in any shape to walk home, so we made a litter out of some old sacks and pieces of rebar. It wasn't easy, but we managed. I'd imagine Tiva's healed enough to come in—you actually caught the brunt of the blast."

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