"Thank you." Genuinely: "There are people in this city who wouldn't have returned these."
She holds them close at her hip, fingertips gripping just a little bit too tightly. Once she's had some time to process, she'll put them somewhere safe, warded a hundred times over, unbreakably so, and hopefully that will be that. It'd be better to just destroy it, but she knows there might be something useful in there eventually, too.
"Which is why I'm glad you've assured me, but...even so...try to forget you ever saw it. Please."
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She holds them close at her hip, fingertips gripping just a little bit too tightly. Once she's had some time to process, she'll put them somewhere safe, warded a hundred times over, unbreakably so, and hopefully that will be that. It'd be better to just destroy it, but she knows there might be something useful in there eventually, too.
"Which is why I'm glad you've assured me, but...even so...try to forget you ever saw it. Please."