A!A you are my favourite writer of woobie misery right now and I love you to bits. Vanyel's angst is so delicious, I can't even tell you in real words. I love every second of it, so much, how he's just trapped in his own mind and hates himself so much, too much to consider any possibility but the grimmest of them all. Poor poor poor Vanyel, and poor confused Tylendel. My money now is on him heading home and Savil sending a rescue team once she hears from him what's happened to Van.

In short - keep it coming, A!A, you are doing the Gods' work.