[it's frightening how uncertain she's been feeling lately. of her role when she neither a princess nor paladin, her powers stripped in place of something new and still so unfamiliar.

all of us he says, and she knows Shiro speaks the truth. that she does need to stay closer to the team, that they're always stronger together. but...]

Lance is gone, isn't he? [it's said with unfettered sadness in her tone.] He...he wasn't...it was not because of the ship, was it? As far as you know?

[it's difficult to think about, but easier to focus on another than her. especially when Lance is, for all intents and purposes, the one she feels closest to.

but she listens to what Shiro says, sitting down on the bed in her room, free hand resting against its headboard as she tries to process everything.]

I am familiar with such a creature. It is reptilian, is it not? [a pause] Another member of the circle transforms into one...I've seen it before. [she thinks to Morrigan, briefly.]

When my team went down, and was separated, our power changed too. But I had the abilities I had back in our universe, and I believe the others did as well.