So, with captains—it must not be pleasant. Outliving them, the way you always will.
[Not the most delicately posed of statements, but Iskierka is young, Dorian has realized, and he suspects she has never felt that particular kind of loss for herself. He might otherwise have hesitated.]
no subject
[Not the most delicately posed of statements, but Iskierka is young, Dorian has realized, and he suspects she has never felt that particular kind of loss for herself. He might otherwise have hesitated.]