"I know." She murmured, just barely above a whisper and yet filled with a lot more emotion than she would have liked to convey to a man who was still essentially a stranger. They were words spoken from experience. She knew apologies did not bring back the dead - nothing brought back the dead to a state that could count as being alive at all; not even magic.

She expected that to be the end of it, but then it wasn't. "Oh. Um...just a simple one is fine. I am sure you do not want to waste any more time here."