Then I am glad the memories of pain didn't linger.

[And he means it, entirely, and it shows on his craggy face and in his eyes. He lies badly; he is honest very well.]

Is there something she needs without a warden to provide? If it's only company, you've got more power to give that than I have. She don't like me much, and I think her recent willingness to talk much to me was down to that past flood.