[And maybe in another time and place, he would boast or laugh or say something typically cocky and commonplace for him, but this time, Thancred just nods slowly, a gentle rise and fall of his chin. It sounds so different in someone else's words. So rare, when he's failed so much and carried the burdens of so many guilts and sins, to save everything and everyone, just the once.

But then, when the follow-up comes, he does chuckle under his breath.]

My heart stopped. Gave out, one night, in my sleep.

[He closes his eyes.]

That time when Nav hit me. I mentioned it brought back a powerful memory of something, didn't I?