[As Teddy takes her hand she tenses, blinking down at the connection. It had been months now since that day, since she heard Astarael weep in the deeps of the Reservoir and it had very nearly taken her and Touchstone into Death along with her Father and the rest of the Dead that had surrounded them. She had fought it, and through the bond she shared with Touchstone she had saved him from the bell's call. This gesture though small held the same sort of strength to it, a life line of sorts between two hurting people. Burns or no, she didn't have the heart to pull her hand away.]

I know what it's like to be hunted, to have no safe place and...a responsibility you cannot run from.

[Her hand tightens around his.]

He was Abhorsen. I didn't know until he had gone missing that it was his title and not his name. Now I am Abhorsen, and the last of my family.