Nyrissa stuck with him; she had made some quiet inquiries of her own, but nothing major. When they left, she quietly wrapped an arm around him, for as long as he needed, silently offering support, before they returned home.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, when they would return to the old tower, they would find that is had not only been thoroughly looted and cleaned, but that there was a new inhabitant there, who had taken over in the intervening decades, and set up their own workshop.