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[fourthreturned]

We're back.

Sorrow and I, anyway. I don't know where the others are.

Sorrow's going to go find Hope. I get to stay and see if anyone else stumbles in, and apparently make sure nothing too idiotic happens to any of you. Fun.

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[northerndragon]

[Well thank the gods for that, he thinks, a little darkly, and doesn't say it; these aren't the gods he means.]

It's not as if we could send out a search party.

[fourthreturned]

That would have been interesting to see.

[northerndragon]

Don't think we could possibly have found you.

Have the lot of you been lost like this before? By the time I wound up here, you were all in the city. Some of the others tell me it wasn't always so.

[fourthreturned]

We weren't lost before. We were dead. Let's hope that's not happening again.

[northerndragon]

Let's hope.

It doesn't seem like you're in much danger for the time being. But Hope himself?

[In some ways, it seems like it would be just like this place for Hope to die, no matter how much Jon does to keep hope -- the feeling, not the god -- alive.]

Do you think there's a danger that the Null will find the ones who are lost before the rest of you find them?

[fourthreturned]

It's not impossible. We're safer in the city, where we can work together to hide it and ourselves.