"You earned the first ones, but we settled that. Returning to life, though startling to me, doesn't mean I have to threaten to send you back into the grave," Sparhawk explains as they move.

He falls silent again as he looks at the lake Martel has brought them to, arranging the words in his head till they make some sort of sense.

"I've been trying to tell myself that I'm insane for wanting to start a reconciliation with you," he begins.