Heedless of Rei's call, she lifted a hand as if she could touch the memory she saw, though the pale fingers simply swept through the darkness like limp moonbeams, meeting nothing.

"Rei," she said, and nothing more -- all of her confusion and duty just a notch to the left of where it ought to be woven through that name. Meril turned to look at the girl, a bit of a feverish flush in her cheeks and burning bright in her eyes.