Raine started to reply and stopped before she'd got more than a word out, thinking better of her initial phrasing. She rubbed one hand across her eyes, thinking. Was the full explanation something Valdis needed, or that Raine wanted to make known?

Better to have the reason for her apology, at least, plain, though she was not bringing Solomon into it. Not now. "It took me a little time to learn of the Shadow Realm as a possibility," she said in the end. "But as for Bakura..." A little shrug. "I said 'please,'" she said dryly. "No, I owe you that apology because I took longer to act than I should have. By inaction I extended your suffering, and for that, I am sorry."

She offered Valdis a short bow then, a gesture she rarely found the use for. "I'll leave you to rest," she said. "At least think on what I've said, please."