She was trying so hard not to be there and not to feel anything, not to make it harder. But Elijah's words upset her. She wanted to cry when he said Whitby wouldn't be the same without her, and she was reminded so painfully that Whitby was no longer her home. She wanted to tell him he had been good to her when he said he had failed her, but she couldn't get any words past her lips. For she didn't know what she would say once she did open her mouth. She didn't know what would happen. Instead, she stepped forward and hugged him. Tight. Pressing her face into his chest, in a way that was probably inappropriate now that she was a woman, but she clung on and wanted to speak. She couldn't. But she couldn't let go, for they would see that she had started crying. Suddenly Bram joined the hug, wrapping his arms around both of them. "Aliiiiiiiice!" he cried.