She can't even tell him that he died once more after that. She watched him die twice. She doesn't tell him that she fell during the struggle with Raishan that had been a long time coming. Or what happened in Vesrah. Or a million other things that have happened between the time she saw Ripley shoot him dead after he offered her forgiveness and the successful completion of her first Hunt. The words die in her throat.

There's so much pain between those two points in time, but there's so much happiness and love and laughter. It's hard to put words to convey the very thing that keeps her fighting as hard as she does. But that letter? She's got thoughts on that.

"It was both beautiful and incredibly selfish, Percival. Your words and observations are very correct about every one of us, but you've never given yourself enough credit for the part that you play in our group either. And I know when you wrote the letter. You told me later yourself why and when."

She sighs, wiping at her eyes because she can't sit here and wallow. "Don't think that you have to say anything in return. I don't want any obligation from you, Percy. But you should know something I've already said to you. The words you said to Ripley, offering her forgiveness, even in the face of death for the both of you, showed me that I was still lacking, that I still had much room to grow. Sinaeth is the word I've carved into Fenthras so that I'm reminded that I'm not out here fighting for vengeance but for the chance and forgiveness for others and myself."

After taking a moment, Vex'ahlia stands and releases Trinket. She knows that Trinket will automatically go to Percy to check on him and it will give her the time to full her hurt back in so that she can be "Vex" again. He needn't know that her nightmares stalking her are Orcus and the Raven Queen. That would require too much damn explanation that she doesn't have the energy to give.