“No,” Ilde snaps back, instinctively contrary and briefly, madly relieved to discover that yes, their dead woman does speak something she comprehends. The possibility that she might not had only struck her once Wolfgang was already in the water, and she has no idea what they'd have done otherwise. Then, “No,” still firm but not quite so sharp, and she's so glad she has to focus on Wolfgang's face and not whatever is going on by the water's surface. “You showed us a man-- do you want us to find him for you?”
no subject