For a long minute, the two of them just stood there in silence. Rune still looked pretty much lost in his thoughts.
Grace was about to break the silence when she heard him speak in a barely audible voice. "They were tortured because of me."
She didn't respond immediately, instead, she let him say what he needed to.
"They were my teammates. And for that, they spent eleven years in a prison designed to break them. What kind of leader does that to his people?"
This time, she decided to speak. She couldn't let him delve further into this guilt. Stepping closer, she placed her hand on his chest, over his heart. "The kind who just risked everything to find them the moment he got to know about their disappearance."
He met her eyes with his own filled with pain and disbelief.
