Aly gave a start and really focused on Valdis. "Sorry?"

Almost unconsciously, her hand went to the thin scar encircling her entire neck like a choker - the mark of her surprise beheading. Nasty way to go. Nastier way to come back to your body. She'd honestly been convinced for a second that the faerie assassins had killed her in the Waking like they'd been intending to. But they'd killed her on the Otherside...and she'd lived to tell the tale, so to say.