"It has been such that inattention would likely cost my life," she admitted quietly. "And so the apology." Failing should by rights have killed her.

Even here.

Seek return passage? There was an honest, if tired, look of fear on her face at that statement. She had naught but the hunt to return to honestly. Mayhap that was why she had been cornered, not having any true place to aim her feet toward. "I wouldst fear the Hunter should I return," she admitted quietly. "If there is need of a Stillmistress...?" Here?

At all?