"Perhaps to change the past; but I think we should all prefer that chapter stayed closed."

It was for the best things like Malicant didn't appear to leave ghosts.

Raine perhaps should have been more surprised by the report of Valdis's father's death. She hesitated over a step, blinked slowly, and focused on where the shop was. She should have guessed something of the sort for Valdis's past, but she wondered... what sort of a death it had been.

In any case, it wasn't one she could change now. "Are you sure you're all right?" she asked instead.