The amulets that people need to survive around here? [ He frowns at that. If they were basically condemning them to die, then . . . there was no excuse.

A look of concern briefly crosses his face when he mentions that he went on the retrieval mission, but Asougi is quick to shake his head, as if to shake it off. Naruhodou's grown, it's fine. Of course he'd help with something like that. ] . . . I'd heard whispers around town about Briarlan, though I hadn't realized the reason behind the tenuous relationship was something like that.