Someone else is there; Ilde had found the key in the river and walked to his apartment, sopping wet and naked underneath the illusions that prevented anyone from thinking too hard about stopping her. (Someone dropped their grocery bag when she went by, and she remembers thinking abstractly that yes, there are some people in Baedal who can see through her glamours. It doesn't matter.) She made it all the way inside so the key is by the door and Ilde is in the bathtub, with feet instead of a tail and warm water instead of cold and her arms hugging her knees to her chest.

"Oh," she says, like he said something.